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Chrysoglossum villosum is an orchid species identified by Blume in 1825. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Pilophyllum villosum.
ORIGIN: Found in Malaysia, Java, Borneo, the Philippines, Solomon Islands and New Guinea in lower montane forests on ridge tops often in exposed locations in humus at elevations of 600 to 2000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Large sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial orchid with slightly quadrangular, apically tapering psueobulbs carrying a single, brown, pubescent, plicate, ovate, acute leaf with a short hairy petiole that blooms on a cylindrical pseudobulb giving rise to a terminal, 14 [40 cm] tall, laxly many flowered, hairy, 28 [to 70 cm] long, dark purple inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate to acute floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate flowers with only a few open at any one time arising in the winter.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 1/4 inch [3 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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