Phragmipedium klotzschianum
A slender, grass-leaved slipper orchid of the Guayana Shield that grows on sandstone and gravel banks of rivers in Venezuela, Guyana and northern Brazil, often wetted by spray or flooding. It needs constantly wet roots, bright light and warm days, and is best grown standing in clean, low-mineral water.
Where it grows wild
Rheophytic: rock crevices, sandbars and gravel banks along fast streams and rivers, rooted in wet sand and moss, sometimes briefly submerged in floods.
Few records carry an elevation; the measured sites span roughly 100 to 950 m, and the species is usually cited from riverbanks in the lower and middle Guayana Highlands.
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