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Humboltia gratiosa is an orchid species identified by (Rchb.f.) Kuntze in 1891. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Pleurothallis gratiosa.
ORIGIN: Found in Venezuela as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte at elevations around 1500 to 1635 meters.
DESCRIPTION: A miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte at elevations around 1500 to 1635 meters with erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2, loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, elliptical leaf that blooms on a thin, 2 [5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with the flower held above the leaf and occurring in the spring and summer. It has slender, erect, ramicauls that are sharply ancipitous towards the middle, a bract below the middle and 2 to 3 basal sheaths carrying a single, apical, rigid, coriaceous, erect, elliptical, obtuse, cordate, sessile leaf with a rounded base that blooms on a fascile of solitary successive flowers arising from a reclining spathe at the base of the leaf. The peduncle is filiform and can be ascending or suberect, with a tubular floral bract.
FLOWER SIZE: 3/8 inch [1 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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