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Common Name The Cradle Shaped Ophidion

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Antioquia state, Colombia at elevations above 600 meters as a miniature sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte with, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3, loose acuminate sheaths and carrying a single, apicalelliptic, acute, geadually narrows below into the channeled petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late spring on a short, lateral, single flowered inflorescence arising from just above the base of the ramical .

Synonyms *Cryptophoranthus cunabulus Luer & R. Escobar 1981; Phloeophila cunabula (Luer & R. Escobar) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Systematics of the Pleurothallidinae Vol 1 1986; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006;