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Lecanorchis ridleyana is an orchid species identified by Schltr. in 1911. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Lecanorchis malaccensis.
ORIGIN: Found in the Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo in moist shady forests at elevations of sea level to 600 meters meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, hot to warm growing, mycoheterotrophic terrestrial with a slender, brittle, dark purple to almost blackish brown, sometimes branching stem carrying about 3, widely separated, small, triangular sheaths and blooms in the fall and winter on an erect, terminal, to .6 [1.5 cm] long, successively 3 to 6 flowered inflorescence with rounded, concave floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.4 inches [1 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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