Macroclinium dalstroemii Dodson 1984 Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

Common Name or Meaning Hirtz's Macroclinium [Ecuadorian Orchid Enthusiast]

Flower Size .15" [4 mm]

Found in E Ecuador and Peru in wet lower montane forests at elevations around 200 to 900 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a fan of distichous, leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying conduplicate, obliquely elliptic, acute leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on an erect, terete, to 1.2" [3 cm] long, most often successively 2 flowered inflorescence.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 939 Dodson 1984; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 2002