Aspasia omissa Christenson 2004

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Common Name The Missed Aspasia

Flower Size 1.6” [4 cm]

Found in el Choco department of Colombia below 400 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with clustered, ovoid, flattened pseudobulbs flanked basally by 2 large leaf bearing bracts and carrying 2 apical, erect, lanceolate-oblong, acuminate leaves that blooms in the winter on an axillary, erect, 2” [5 cm] long, few flowered inflorescence.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orquideas de la Serrania de Baudo Choco Colombia Misas 2006 as Aspasia principissa drawing/photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 73 #3 2009; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 photo fide

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