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Orchid Species: Trichocentrum caloceras
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Trichocentrum caloceras is an orchid species identified by Endrés & Rchb.f. in 1871.
ORIGIN: Found from Costa Rica and Panama as a miniature sized, hot to warm and pendant growing epiphytic species in wet montane forests at elevations of 500 to 1300 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Found from Costa Rica and Panama as a miniature sized, hot to warm and pendant growing epiphytic species in wet montane forests at elevations of 500 to 1300 meters with an almost inconspicuous, rounded pseudobulb carrys a single, apical, oblong to oblong-elliptic, spotted with reddish purple, obtuse, abruptly narrowed below into the short, narrow, conduplicate base leaf that blooms in the spring and early summer on a basal, pendant, 1.2 to 1.4 [3 to 3.5 cm] long, terete, fractiflex, 5 to 6 flowered inflorescence arising on a newly matured pseudobulb.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 1/4 inch [3 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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