!Caluera surinamensis Dodson & Determann 1983 Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista © and Orchidstudium

Common Name or Meaning The Surinam Caluera

Flower Size 1/4" [8 mm]

Found in Surinam and Para' State of Brazil in rainforests at elevations around 400 to 500 meters on thin, mossy twigs of trees as a mini-miniature szied, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a very short stem enveloped copmpletely by imbricating, leaf bearing sheaths each carrying, distchously arranged, narrowly elliptic, acute apically, ancipitous, leaves that blooms in the spring on an axillary, .8" [2 cm] long, 4 to 5 flowered infloresence with a vaginate, acuminate sheath at the mid-point and narrowly ovate flroal bracts.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *AOS Bulletin Vol 52 No 4 1983 photo; The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 3 2001

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