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Orchid Species: Cheirostylis chinensis
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Cheirostylis chinensis is an orchid species identified by Rolfe in 1895.
ORIGIN: Found in Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, China, Taiwan and the Philippines in wet broad-leaved and coniferous mossy forests on rocky limestone at elevations of 200 to 1550 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature to small sized, hot growing terrestrial or lithophyte with one to 5, basal, dull gray green, narrowly ovate to ovate-cordate, acute leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on an erect, tomentose, 9.4 [23.5 cm] long, 1 to 10 flowered inflorescence with triangular-ovate, acuminate, sparsely hairy to sub-glabrous, longer than the ovaries floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/2 inch [1.25 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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