Constantia cristinae F.E.L.Miranda 1991 Photo by © Francisco Miranda and The Miranda Orchids Website

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Common Name Cristina's Constania [Mrs Miranda, Orchid Enthusiast, discoverer of species and wife of Francisco orchid nurseryman in Brazil]

Flower Size .5" [1.25 cm]

Found in northern Minas Gerais state of Brazil on shady, lichen covered, large vertical rock faces in very dry locations as a mini-miniature sized, cool to warm growing lithophyte with roundish, slightly flattened diagonally, wrinkled with age, pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, asymetrical, ovate, acute, carinate, slightly tuberculed in crest-like lines, fleshy, basally somewhat cordate leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, single flowered infloresecence

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Cattleyas and Their Relatives Withner Vol 3 1990 photo fide;

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