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Orchid Species: Calanthe aceras
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Calanthe aceras is an orchid species identified by Schltr. in K.M.Schumann & C.A.G.Lauterbach in 1905.
ORIGIN: Found in New Guinea in montane forests and along valley floors at elevations around 1200 to 1500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Large sized, cool growing terrestrial with a very short rhizome giving rise to stems carrying broadly lanceolate, acuminate, gradually narrowing below into the 16 [40 cm] long, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer through fall on an erect, peduncle to 20 to 60 [50 to 150 cm] long, rachis to 20 [50 cm] long, 40 to 80 [100 to 200 cm] long overall, densely many flowered inflorescence with deciduous, lanceolate, acuminate, as long as the ovary floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 1.6 inches [4 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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