!Hofmeisterella eumicroscopica [Rchb.f]Rchb.f 1852 Photo by © Ecuagenera and Their Ecuador Orchid Website

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Common Name The Barely Visible Flower Hofmeisteriella

Flower Size 1/2" [1.2 cm]

A miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte from Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru and Bolivia low down on exposed branches of small shrubs in montane cloud forests at altitudes of 1600 to 2400 meters that is a small stemless plant with linear, fleshy, equitant, distichious, terete foliage that gives rise to an axillary, laterally flattened, erect to arcuate, few to several, successive flowered inflorescence arising at any time of the year and culture is similar to Orinthocephalus. The flowers are held well above the leaves and are quite large for the size of the plant.

Synonyms Hofmeistera eumicroscopica Rchb. f. 1852

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1965; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 5 1970; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 535 Dodson 1982; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 925 Dodson 1984; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 0077 Dodson & Bennett 1989; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 2 COS 1991; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2002;