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Pleurothallis gemina is an orchid species identified by H.Stenzel in 2001. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Specklinia lichenicola.
ORIGIN: Found in eastern Cuba in shady and humid places in montane rainforests, mesophyllous evergreen rainforests and charrascales from 300 to 900 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Mini-miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with very short, ascending ramicauls enveloped by 3 hyaline sheaths and carrying a single apical, erect, coriaceous, broadly oblong to obovate, obtuse to rounded, minutely tridentate, small warts above, galbrous beneath, attenuate below into the base leaf that blooms in the spring on a terminal, erect to ascending, glabrous, .075 to .16 [2 to 4 mm] long, generally 2 simultaneously flowered inflorescence arising through an annulus with 2 bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.6 inches [1.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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