Andinia schizopogon

Andinia schizopogon (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase, Lindleyana 16(4): 251 (2001).

Andinia schizopogon (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase, Photo by Masaaki Matsumoto

Andinia schizopogon (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase, Photo by Pascal Descourvières

its native range is Ecuador to Peru (Cajamarca).

Latin Name: 

Andinia schizopogon (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Pleurothallis schizopogon Luer

English Name:

The Split Beard Pleurothallis.

Description: 

With an elongate rhizome giving rise to alternate, slender, ascending ramicauls enveloped basally by 1 to 2, loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, suberect, coriaceous, narrowly obovate, obtuse to rounded appically, gradually narrows below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter spring and fall on a loose, successively 3 to 6 flowered, 5 to 15 cm long, racemose inflorescence arising laterally from the ramicaul and has acute, oblique floral bracts.

Distribution:

Ecuador, Peru.

Ecological:

As a miniature to small sized, cold growing epiphyte at elevations of 2400 to 3100 m in cloud forests.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the winter spring and fall.

Flower size:

5.0 cm.

Cultivation:

Keep plant in partial shade. Plant can be grown in cool conditions. Pot the plant in fine bark with perlite or sphagnum moss. Water regularly and keep potting media moist.

Typus:

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- https://www.ipni.org/n/645536-1

- http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1050023-2

- http://www.orchidspecies.com/pleurschizopogon.htm.

- https://orchids.fandom.com/wiki/Andinia_schizopogon