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Orchid Species: Pleurothallis talpinarioides
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Pleurothallis talpinarioides is an orchid species identified by Garay & Dunst. in 1976.
ORIGIN: Found in Venezuela at elevations around 1500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, warm growing epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped basally by 2, close, one long, one short, tubular, brown sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, shiny green, revolute margins, tridentate apically, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate base leaf that blooms in the late spring on a short to 1 [2.5 cm], successively single flowered inflorescence arising from a compressed, red-brown spathe at the base of the leaf.
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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