Centroglossa castellensis Brade 1949 Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista © and Orchidstudium

Drawing Drawing by © Hoehne © and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name The Castelo Centroglossa [A town in Espiritu Santo State of Brazil]

Flower Size .4 x 3/4" [1 x 1.85 cm]

Found in Espirito Santo state of Brazil at elevations around 1100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with miniscule, elongate-oblong pseudobulbs enveloped basally by 2 leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, oblong, acute, attenuate below into the base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an ascending, as long or longer than the leaf, 1.2 to 1.6" [3 to 4 cm] long, 4 to 6 flowered inflorescence

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953 drawing good; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 2 Pabst & Dungs 1977 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 31 1905 - 1976 Brieger 1995 ; The Organ Mountain Range Its History and its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller and Seehauer 2008 drawing fide; Orchidees du Bresil As Orquideas da Serra do Castello Espirito Santo Brasil Chiron & Bolsanello Vol 4 2014 drawing fide;

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