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Orchid Species: Sylphia cactantha

Kew currently accepted name is Specklinia cactantha

Sylphia cactantha is an orchid species identified by (Luer) Luer in 2006. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Specklinia cactantha.
Genus
Sylphia (Sylphia.)
Grex
cactantha
Parents
Species
Author
(Luer) Luer
Year
2006
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ORIGIN: Found in Panama and Colombia at elevations around 650 to 1650 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Mini-miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 thin. tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, dark green to blue green, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, marginate, cuneate below into the indistinct, subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on a fascile, of congested, slender, suberect, sparsely spiculate, 1/2 to .8 [1.3 to 2 cm] long, successively single, few flowered inflorescence held beyond the leaf with thin, tubular, imbricating floral bracts.

FLOWER SIZE: 0.2 inches [5 mm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Specklinia Spe cactantha 2001 (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase
Add+ Pleurothallis Pths cactantha 1976 Luer
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Pths. cactantha 'Free Spirit' (2003)
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