Chytroglossa aurata Rchb.f. 1863 Photos courtesy of Ro Leoni ©

Plant and Flowers Photos courtesy of Patricia Harding ©

Common Name The Golden Chytroglossa

Flower Size 1/2" [1.3 cm]

Found in Sao Paulo and Rio States of Brazil at elevations of 800 to 1000 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a fan-shape of several, slender, keeled leaves where it blooms in the winter on several, pendant, wiry, 3" [7.5 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence carrying close set flowers.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1867 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 37 No 6 1973 photo fide; Orchidaceae Brasiliense Pabst & Dungs 1976; Miniature Orchids Northen 1980; AOS Bulletin Vol 53 No 5 1984 photo;

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