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Orchid Species: Lepanthes georgii
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Lepanthes georgii is an orchid species identified by Luer & R.Escobar in 1994.
ORIGIN: Found in Antioquia Colombia at elevations around 2400 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 7 to 8, tight fitting, microscopically scabrous lepanthiform sheaths with acuminate apices and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate, acute, rounded and contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later spring on a filiform, congested, distichous,, .64 to 72 [1.6 to 1.8 cm] long including the .36 to .44 [.9 to 1.1 cm] long peduncle, successively single, several flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf with muricate floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/4 inch [7 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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