Cischweinfia glicensteinii Christenson 2003 Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved.

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Common Name Glicenstein's Cischweinfia [American Orchid Photographer current]

Flower Size 1 1/2" [3.75 cm]

Found from Costa Rica to Colombia as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with oblong-elliptic, strongly compressed, sharply two angled pseudobulbs enveloped basally by foliaceous bracts and carrying a single, apical, linear, conduplicate, acuminate leaf and blooms in the spring and fall on axillary, racemose, 2 3/4" [7 cm] long inflorescence with inconspicuous floral bracts and carrying one to 4, fragrant flowers. Often confused with C dasyandra but it has a round ruffled white lip with five brown or lilac rays.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 2 2003 photo