!Horvatia andicola Garay 1977 Photo by © Rudolf Jenny and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Full shade cold Summer

Common Name The Andes Loving Horvatia

Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]

Found in Canar province of Ecuador at elevations around 2600 to 2700 meters as a miniature to small sized, cold growing epiphyte with an elongate rhizome with 4" [10 cm] between each ellipsoid pseudobulb carrying a single apical, erect petiole then horizontal blade, narrowly lanceolate, plicate, acute leaf that blooms in the summer from the rhizome on an erect, 2" [5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 30 1841 - 1904 Brieger 1994 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 drawing fide;

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