dimanche 16 septembre 2012

pleurothallis grobyi



Shade, cold to hot, flower all year
A miniature, cool to hot growing, caespitose, epiphytic species found from Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, French Guiana, Surinam and Guyana in cool lower cloud forest, piedmont forests and gallery forests at elevations of 60 to 3200 meters, with a single, apical, sub-orbicular-oval to elliptic, attenuate to a channeled petiolate base, tridenticulate leaf blooming on an apical, racemose, 1" to 6" [2 to 8 cm] long, longer than the leaf, fractiflex inflorescence with a triangular bract and a few flowers opening in succession that can be variable in its flower colors and blooming times. Needs to be mounted on treefern and given warm to cool temperatures with good shade, high humidity and ample air movement.