Macroclinium aurorae Dodson 1989
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Photo courtesy of Brian A. O'Brien Copyright ©
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Common Name Aurora's Macroclinium [Mrs Aurora Bennett, Orchid enthusiast in Peru current]
Flower Size
Found in Junin Peru at elevations around 750 meters as a super-mini sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with very small, inconspicuous pseudobulbs enveloped completely by 3 to 4, distichous, imbricating sheaths with the uppermost 2, leaf bearing and carrying a single, apical, thickened, lanceolate, acute leaf that is somewhat "U" shaped in crossection and has wrinkled, garnet-red, raised network on sunken green background and blooms in the late spring and summer on an axillary, erect, slender, 1.4" [3.5 cm] long, racemsoe inflorescence arising on a recently matured pseudobulb and carrying the several [9 to 15] flowers in an apical crowded sphere of flowers
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 097 Dodson & Bennett 1989 drawing ok; AOS Bulletin vol 78 No 11 2009 photo fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Orquideas del Peru Freuler 2010 photo ok; Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo ok; Orchid Digest Vol 75 #4 2011 Photo ok; Orchid Digest Vol 78 #4 2014 photo fide; LANKESTERIANA 14(1) 2014;
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