Orchis in the park - SF - September 2010
Andy's orchids
Full shade, cold to intermediary temperature, flower any time
Found in Colombia as a cool to warm growing, miniature epiphyte at elevations around 2050 meters with a blackish, erect, slender, ramicaul enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths with a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, petiolate, narrowly obovate, subacute leaf that gradually narrows to the slender petiole and giving rise to an erect, 6" to 8" [15 to 20 cm] long, successively few flowered inflorescence with a few widely spaced bracts and tubular imbricating floral bracts occuring at any time of the year with the flowers held well above the leaf and have a snapping lip.
Full shade, cold to intermediary temperature, flower any time
Found in Colombia as a cool to warm growing, miniature epiphyte at elevations around 2050 meters with a blackish, erect, slender, ramicaul enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths with a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, petiolate, narrowly obovate, subacute leaf that gradually narrows to the slender petiole and giving rise to an erect, 6" to 8" [15 to 20 cm] long, successively few flowered inflorescence with a few widely spaced bracts and tubular imbricating floral bracts occuring at any time of the year with the flowers held well above the leaf and have a snapping lip.
