Cischweinfia parva (C. Schweinf.) Dressler & N.H. Williams 1970 Photo by Orchi and the Wiki Media Website

Another Flower Photo by Ecuagenara and their Ecuadorian Orchid Website

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

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Common Name The Small Flowered Cischweinfia

Flower Size 1 1/4" [3 cm]

Found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia in montane cloud forests at elevations of 700 to 1150 meters as a small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with a short rhizome carrying close-set, ovate, ancipitous, smooth, light green pseudobulbs enveloped basally by 2 to several distichous, sheaths with the uppermost being foliaceous and progressing smaller on each lateral leaf carrying strap-shaped leaves that gradually narrow basally into a short conduplicate petiole that blooms in the summer and early fall on a axillary, 3" [7.5 cm] long, few [1 to 2] flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb.

Synonyms Cischweinfia chasei D.E.Benn. & Christenson 1994 ; Cischweinfia emarginata Christenson 2003; *Miltonia parva C. Schweinf. 1945

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 3 1970 as Miltonia parva; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 518 Vasquez & Dodson 1982 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 0029 Dodson & Bennett 1989 drawing hmm; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1993 photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 219 Bennet & Christenson 1995 as Cischweinfia chasei drawing ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 2 2003 photo as C chasei; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 2 2003 as C emarginata; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 2 2003 photo; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Orquideas del Peru Freuler 2010 photo ok

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