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Leptorkis puncticulata is an orchid species identified by (Ridl.) Kuntze in 1891. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Liparis puncticulata.
ORIGIN: Found in northern and central Madagascar in humid, evergreen, mossy forests at elevations of 800 to 2000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized warm to cool growing terrestrial with cauliform, elongate pseudobulbs enveloped by 6 to 8, finely black punctate, short sheaths and carrying 3 to 4, flacate, short, lanceolate to oblong lanceolate, abruptly contracted into the widely compressed, sessile base leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on an erect, terminal, much longer than the leaves, 5.2 to 6" [13 to 15 cm] long, peduncle equal to slightly shorter than the rachis, 2 to 3 bractiform, long, narrow, green sheaths, loosely 6 to 15 flowered inflorescence with 2/3 of the pedicel in length floral bracts carrying olive green flowers.
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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