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Orchid Species: Ania ruybarrettoi
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Ania ruybarrettoi is an orchid species identified by S.Y.Hu & Barretto in 1976.
ORIGIN: Found in Guangxi Hainan and Hong Kong Provinces of China as well as northern Vietnam in forests, beside rivers and in bamboo forests in humid, shady locations at elevations of 600 to 900 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, warm growing terrestrial with closely spaced, dark green to purplish red, ovoid pseudobulbs with 2 sheaths and carrying a single, plicate, dark green, lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, glabrous, 12 to 18 [30 to 45 cm] long, 5 to 28 flowered inflorescence with 3 reddish bract-like sheaths below and dark purple, narrowly lanceolate floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 2.8 inches [7 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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