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Orchid Species: Cheirostylis monteiroi
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Cheirostylis monteiroi is an orchid species identified by S.Y.Hu & Barretto in 1976.
ORIGIN: Found in Hong Kong China in humus in shade on damp mossy boulders close to streams at elevations of 300 to 400 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Mini-miniature sized, hot growing terrestrial, with a fleshy, fleshy, 4 to 6 internoded, narrowed at each end, swollen medially rhizome giving rise to 2 to 3, withered at blooming, ovate, acute to acuminate, glabrous, dark greenwith darker veins, subcordate below into the purple green petiolate base leaves that blooms in the later winter and early spring on a terminal, slender, hairyeglandular, 2.8 to 3.6 [7 to 9 cm] long, 2 to 8 flowered inflorescence with 3 to 7, sterile, basal bracts and cymbiform, lanceolate pink to straw colored floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.28 long inches [7 mm] long
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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