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Acrolophia barbata is an orchid species identified by (Spreng.) Pfitzer in 1988. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Acrolophia lunata.
ORIGIN: Found in Cape Province South Africa in fynbos and restio-veld and coastal scrub in sand at elevations of 100 to 1700 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Slender to robust, medium to large sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial that flowers in the spring and summer [October to January] in situ and has a tuft of ridgid, erect leaves and numerous, long, thick, fleshy roots and blooms on an erect, unbranched to branched, terminal, many flowered inflorescence.
FLOWER SIZE: 1.8 inches [4.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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