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Orchid Species: Sarcoglyphis lilacina
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Sarcoglyphis lilacina is an orchid species identified by (J.J.Sm.) Garay in 1972.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature to small sized epiphyte with an elongate stem carrying strap-shaped, fleshy, rigid, very unequally bilobed apically with obtuse lobes and a spike between them leaves that blooms on an axillary, possibly not branched, longer than the leaves, peduncle thin, terete, green spotted with violet, to 5.2 [13 cm] long, with a few short tubular bracts, rachis angular to winged, to 3.6 [9 cm] long, laxly to 18 flowered inflorescence with small, triangular floral bracts..
FLOWER SIZE: 0.442 inches [1.15 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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