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Orchid Species: Acanthephippium sylhetense
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Acanthephippium sylhetense is an orchid species identified by Lindl. in 1831.
ORIGIN: Found from Assam, Bangladesh, eastern Himalayas, Sikkim, lower India, to Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Ryukyu Islands and Taiwan in tropical valleys in moist shady locations in dense forests or in wooded ravines at elevations of 500 to 1500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, hot to cool growing deciduous leafed terrestrial that needs indirect light with ovoid to terete pseudobulbs enveloped basally by leaf sheaths and carrying three, plicate, tapering to each end leaf with a long petiole and blooms in the spring, summer and fall on a basal, short to 3.6 [to 9 cm] long, 3 to 6 flowered inflorescence arising with a new growth with 1 to 3 fragrant, fleshy flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 3/4 inch [2 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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