!Papperitzia leiboldii [Rchb.f] Rchb. f. 1852

Plant and flower Photo courtesy of Noble Bashor

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Common Name Leibold's Papperitzia [German Orchid and Bromelliad Collector]

Flower Size 3/4" [1.5 cm]

A dwarf, pendant, fanleafed, cool growing epiphyte that is found in the Mexican states of Oaxaca and Vera Cruz at 2377 meters in elevation on Puerto Angel rd. on a small shrub on twigs in full sun about 3m from a small stream and has clustered, ovate to elliptic, slightly compressed, ancipitous pseudobulbs completely enveloped basally by 2 to 3 distichous, imbricating, leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying a single, apical, linear, acuminate, coriaceous, glabrous, articulated leaf and blooms on a basal through the leaf axil, pendant to arching, to 5" [to 12.5 cm] long, few to several [6 to 12] flowered inflorescence arising on a year old pseudobulb and occuring in the late spring and summer. This species should be kept on their original twig if at all possible as well as damp and fairly well shaded year round.

Synonyms *Leochilus leiboldii Rchb.f. 1845

References W3 Tropicos [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html], Kew Monocot list [http://www.kew.org/wcsp/qsearch.do]; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006;

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