Orchids in the park - SF - September 2010
Ecuagenera
Full shade, intermediary to hot temperature, flower all year
Found in western Colombia and Ecuador in wet montane forests as a miniature sized, warm to hot growing epiphyte at elevations of 450 to 1500 meters that has clustered erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, obconical, acute, ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a densely patterned, satiny, pendant, broadly ovate top, subcircular, obtuse or shortly apiculate leaf that is lime to emerald green and red in color with a congested, fasiculate, subsecund, shorter than the leaves, one to several flowered inflorescence that can occur at any time of the year with very small flowers that open in singly in sucession and needs high humidity, constant watering and fertilizer.
Full shade, intermediary to hot temperature, flower all year
Found in western Colombia and Ecuador in wet montane forests as a miniature sized, warm to hot growing epiphyte at elevations of 450 to 1500 meters that has clustered erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, obconical, acute, ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a densely patterned, satiny, pendant, broadly ovate top, subcircular, obtuse or shortly apiculate leaf that is lime to emerald green and red in color with a congested, fasiculate, subsecund, shorter than the leaves, one to several flowered inflorescence that can occur at any time of the year with very small flowers that open in singly in sucession and needs high humidity, constant watering and fertilizer.
