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Orchid Species: Lockhartia amoena
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Lockhartia amoena is an orchid species identified by Endrés & Rchb.f. in 1872.
ORIGIN: Found in Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama at elevations of 300 to 1800 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte in lower montane forests on large trees and branches with cork-like bark with laterally compressed, elongate stems enveloped completely by imbricating, distichous, basally clasping, closely spaced, alternate, obliquely angled, fleshy, triangular, acute, entirely conduplicate longitudinally leaves that blooms late winter and spring on an axillary, to 1.2 [to 3 cm] long, paniculate, few to many flowered inflorescence with a few branches carrying one to a few flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.8 inches [2 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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