Cryptocentrum inaequisepalum C.Schweinf. 1946 Photo by Andrea Nissen © the Orquivalle Orchid Website

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Common Name The Unequal Sepal Cryptocentrum

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia at elevations of 1700 to 2450 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with a somewhat branching rhizome giving rise to a stem enveloped by articulated, distichous, imbricatiing, leafbearing sheaths and carrying narrrowly linear, arcuate, conduplicate, articulated to the broader base leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on an erect, to 2.4" [6 cm] long, terete, single flowered inflorescence largely enveloped by tubular acute bracts nad has an infundibular, acute, slightly longer than the ovary floral bract.

Every drawing I can find is completely different but I feel that this one is correct.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 drawing ok; Icones Planetarum Tropciarum Plate 212 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 drawing fide except for shorter sepals; Icones Planetarum Tropciarum Plate 036 Dodson & Bennett 1989 drawing hmm; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 617 Bennett & Christenson 2001 drqawing ok;

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