HirtziaPterostemmaverified

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Hirtzia escobarii Dodson, Orquideologia 20: 8 (1996).This name is a synonym.

Accepted Name: Pterostemma escobarii (Dodson) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams, Orchids (West Palm Beach) 78: 238 (2009).

Award number: 20155739 PNW

Name: Hirtzia escobarii

Parents:

	Horizontal / Width	Vertical / Length
Natural Spread	0.5	0.6
Dorsal Sepal	.3	.4
Petals	---	.4
Lateral Sepals	---	.4
Lip / Pouch	.3	---

Description:

One cupped green flower and no buds on one branched inflorescence on a single fan-shaped growth with eight leaves borne on a 3.2 cm wide by 5.0 cm plant mounted in sphaghnum on a 1.8 cm by 4.0 cm. bamboo stick; sepals flushed light brown; lip white, keel yellow, column red, wings flushed brown; substance light; texture diamond dust.