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Orchid Species: Hemipilia flabellata
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Hemipilia flabellata is an orchid species identified by Bureau & Franch. in 1891.
ORIGIN: Found in Yunnan, Sichuan and Guizhou. provinces of China in rocky, mossy places on limestone and in open forests, at elevations of 2000-3200 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial orchid with a horizontal-growing ellipsoid tuber, bearing one heart-shaped, densely purplish-speckled leaf on a short stem, so that it appears to be lying flat on the substrate. A terminal inflorescence, up to 11 1/4 [28 cm] tall, is produced from June to August, carrying 3-15 white to pink flowers, with a daze of green on the lateral sepals.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.6 inches [1.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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