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Microcoelia ericosma is an orchid species identified by Summerh. in 1945. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Microcoelia stolzii.
ORIGIN: Found in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe in evergreen foreets and high rainfall woodlands at elevations of 800 to 2450 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with sliver-green roots that blooms in the late spring on up to 5, erect to pendulous, spreading, to 5 [to 12.5 cm] long, more or less furrowed, densely many [40] flowered inflorescence with non-sheathing, ovate, acute, indistinctly single nerved floral bracts and carrying fragrant, crystaline, heather scented flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.22 inches [6 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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