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Pleurothallis mandonii is an orchid species identified by Rchb.f. in 1878. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Stelis mandonii.
ORIGIN: Found in Ecuador and Bolivia at elevations around 3000 to 3300 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, cold growing terrestrial with ascending to erectseparate, not fasciculate, slender ramicauls enveloped with a tubular sheath near the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute to subacute, acuminate, cuneate below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter and again in the early summer on a sublax, distichous to secund, 2 to 3.2 [5 to 8 cm] long including the .8 [2 cm] long peduncle, simultaneously several flowered inflorescence arising through a slender spathe from an annulus below the abscission layer and has an infundibular floral bract.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.2 inches [5 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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