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Orchid Species: Crepidium merapiense
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Crepidium merapiense is an orchid species identified by (Schltr.) Szlach. in 1995.
ORIGIN: Found Thailand and western Sumatra on steep, moist, loam walls at elevations around 1800 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature to small sized, cool growing terrestrial with a short stem enveloped by leaf sheaths and carrying 3 to 5, obliquely ovate, acuminate to acute, basally narrowing into a short petiolate base leaves that blooms in the later summer on a terminal, erect, to 3.2 [8 cm] long, peduncle longer, rachis shorter, densely many flowered inflorescence.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.176 inches [4.4 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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