Cryptocentrum inaequisepalum C.Schweinf. 1946

Photo by Andrea Nissen © the Orquivalle Orchid Website

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Common Name The Unequal Sepal Cryptocentrum

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia at elevations of 1700 to 2450 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with a somewhat branching rhizome giving rise to a stem enveloped by articulated, distichous, imbricating, leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying narrowly linear, arcuate, conduplicate, articulated to the broader base leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on an erect, to 2.4" [6 cm] long, terete, single flowered inflorescence largely enveloped by tubular, acute bracts and has an infundibular, acute, slightly longer than the ovary floral bract.

CAUTION!!!!Every drawing I can find is completely different but I feel that this one is correct.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946; Orchids of Peru Vol 3 Schweinfurth 1960 drawing hmm; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 drawing ok; Icones Planetarum Tropciarum Plate 212 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 drawing fide except for shorter sepals; Icones Planetarum Tropciarum Plate 036 Dodson & Bennett 1989 drawing hmm; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen lieferung 29 1777 - 1840 Brieger 1994; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 617 Bennett & Christenson 2001 drawing ok; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005 drawing hmm; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing not

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