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Hemipiliopsis purpureopunctata is an orchid species identified by (K.Y.Lang) Y.B.Luo & S.C.Chen in 2003. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Hemipilia purpureopunctata.
ORIGIN: Found in southeastern Xizang province of China and northeastern India in broad-leaved evergreen forests, grasslands and sandy soils along rivers at elevations of 2100 to 3400 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with purple spots throughout the plant and flower and has tubers giving rise to an erect stem with 2 sterile, scale-like bracts and carrying a single, light purple abaxially, green spotted with purple adaxially, elliptic to ovate-oblong leaf that blooms in the later summer on an erect, 3.2 to 8 [8 to 20 cm] long, 2 to 20 flowered inflorescence with shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/2 inch [1.25 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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