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Orchid Species: Pabstiella wacketii
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Pabstiella wacketii is an orchid species identified by (Handro & Pabst) Luer in 2007.
ORIGIN: Found in southern and southeastern Brazil in primary wet montane forests at elevations of 1200 to 1300 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miin-miniature to miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with an erect ramicaul enveloped by 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly lanceolate, dark olive green to light green, papery to fleshy, faintly condupl; icate, sopeckled dark purple beneath leaf that blooms in the spring and early summer on an erect, 4 to 6 [1o to 15 cm] long, successively up to 4, 6 flowered inflorescence.
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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