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Orchid Species: Diaphananthe ichneumonea
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Diaphananthe ichneumonea is an orchid species identified by (Lindl.) P.J.Cribb & Carlsward in 2012.
ORIGIN: Found in the Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte found high up in trees in deep shade that likes high humidity at elevations around 600 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Found in the Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte found high up in trees in deep shade that likes high humidity at elevations around 600 meters with short, usually pendant stems with several, linear, curved, acutely bilobed at the apex, the shorter lobe often almost absent, rather fleshy, olive green leaves from which arise a pendant, 8 to 20 [20 to 50 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with the flowers arranged spirally all occurring in the spring.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/8 inch [0.6 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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