Cryptocentrum pergracile Schltr. 1924 SUBGENUS CryptocentrumPhoto by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website
Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
EARLY
Common Name or Meaning The Graceful Cryptocentrum
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Colombia and Eastern Ecuador in very wet montane forests at elevations around 1000 to 1500 meters as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with an erect, short stem enveloped completely by distichously arranged, coriaceous, narrowly linear leaves that blooms in the spring and early summer on a few basal, 3 to 5" [7.5 to 12.5 cm] long, single flowered, arcuate inflorescence enveloped by several vaginate sheaths with the uppermost enveloping the ovary and the lip spur.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, *Beitrage Zur Orchideenkunde Von Colombia 27:103 Schlechter 1924; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 419 Dodson 1982 drawing ok; Native Colombian Orchid Vol 1 COS 1990 photo = C hirtzii; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson & Escobar 1993 drawing ok; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 as Cryptocentrum sp #136 drawing/photo ok
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