Redblotch Tufted Orchid (Jacquiniella globosa)
Description
Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leewards, Puerto Rico, Windwards, Trinidad & Tobago, French Guiana, Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil at 200 to 2400 meters in elevation on Arbutus trees along dry stream bed, oak forested hillside. A miniature to small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte that has terete, fractiflex stems and terete, conduplicate basally clasping leaves that blooms at any time of the year on a terminal, sessile, one to 2 flowered inflorescence with the flowers held at the apex of the stem and opening successively.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum: Magnoliophyta
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Class: Liliopsida
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Order: Asparagales
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Family: Orchidaceae
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Genus: Jacquiniella
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