Centroglossa castellensis Brade1949 Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista © and Orchidstudium

Part shade Warm Cool Spring

Common Name The Castelo Centroglossa [A town in Espiritu Santo State of Brazil]

Flower Size .4 x 3/4" [1 x 1.85 cm]

Found in Espiritu Santo state of Brazil as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with elongate-oblong, small pseudobulbs enveloped basally by a few leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, oblong, acute, attenuate below into the base leaf that blooms in the spring on an ascending, as long or longer than the leaf 1.2 to 1.6" [3 to 4 cm] long, 4 to 6 flowered inflorescence

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953 drawing good;

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