Promenaea silvana is a delightful miniature species from Bahia, Brazil. I got it from Ecuagenera. While the plant is compact (about 4" tall, the pot is 2" diameter in the photo at the bottom), it produces fairly large flowers (about 1.5" natural spread) with gorgeous golden yellow.
The photos are taken from 2 different blooming of the same plant; the front shot and the plant shot is from March 2016, and the others are from December 2015. I didn't notice this when I was taking photos, but the flowers from March doesn't have the red bars on the mid lobe of the lip. Interesting. This is the first time with a large display. After 1 month, the flowers are still in good shape.
I'm growing it in cool-end of intermediate; max/min temperature is around 28/18C (82/65F) in the summer and 18/13C (65/55F) in winter. Relative humidity is usually around 75-80%. It's in fine bark:coarse perlite (sponge rock):sphagnum moss = 3:2:1 now.
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