Mesospinidium incantans Rchb. f. 1880

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Common Name The Enchanting Mesopinidium

Flower Size1/4" [5mm]

Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia in very wet, montane cloud forests as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte at elevations of 400 to 1400 meters with compressed, narrowly linear to ovate, smooth pseudobulbs enveloped basally by well developed leaf bearing sheaths and carrying 2, apical, narrowly lanceolate, conduplicate below into the base leaves that blooms in the late winter and spring in nature on a basal arising from the leaf sheath, branched, many flowered inflorescence that is longer than the leaves.

References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 166 Dodson 1980; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006;

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