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Orchid Species: Hylophila nipponica
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Hylophila nipponica is an orchid species identified by (Fukuy.) T.P.Lin in 1977.
ORIGIN: Found in Taiwan in rainforests in shady damp locations at elevations of 100 to 400 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with an ascending, black to purplish brown stem carrying 3 to 6, abaxially pale green, adaxially dark green and glossy, obovate to elliptic, acuminate to acute, obtuse below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, reddish brown, sparsely pubescent, 2 to 4 [5 to 10 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence with reddish brown, abaxially pubescent, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, slightly longer than the pedicel and ovary, acuminate floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.2 inches [5 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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