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Cischweinfia pusilla (Cischweinfia pusilla)

Description

It is a small orchid with habits of epiphyte and with linear or ellipsoid pseudobulbs strongly compressed laterally, and partially wrapped at the bottom by several imbricate sheaths, conduplicated and with a single apical leaf, linearly tape-like, slightly coriaceous, oblique, narrowing down at the petiolate and conduplicated base. It blooms in the spring in an axillary inflorescence, short of 5 cm, with 3 to 5 flowers that arises from a recently matured pseudobulb through the axils of the basal sheath.

Taxonomic tree

  • Domain: Eukarya

    • Kingdom: Plantae

      • Phylum:

        • Class: Liliopsida

          • Order: Asparagales

            • Family: Orchidaceae

              • Genus: Cischweinfia