Cryptocentrum

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Cryptocentrum
Coconut Pie Orchid
(Cryptocentrum latifolium)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Tribe: Maxillarieae
Subtribe: Maxillariinae
Genus: Cryptocentrum

Cryptocentrum is a neotropical genus of orchid that grows as far north as Nicaragua and south to Bolivia, with twenty species known to date. The Guayana Region is also fostering two species.

References

Vanishing Beauty, vol. 1, Franco Pupulin

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