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Zosterophyllanthos dilemma is an orchid species identified by (Luer) Szlach. & Kulak in 2006. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Pleurothallis dilemma.
ORIGIN: Found in Ecuador at elevations of 1800 to 2000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 close, tubular sheath and another on the lower half and carrying a single, apical, deflexed, thickly rigid, semi-terete, narrowly ovate to sigmoid-ovate, densely short-pubescent, broadly and shallowly channeled to near the apex, acute, basally sessile, deeply forked with semiterete basal lobes, pointing upwards leaf that blooms in the fall on a successive single flowered inflorescence arising through a reclining spathe at the leaf base.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.6 inches [1.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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