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Orchid Species: Oeceoclades boinensis
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Oeceoclades boinensis is an orchid species identified by (Schltr.) Garay & P.Taylor in 1976.
ORIGIN: Found in northwestern Madagascar in humid forests at elevations around 100 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, warm growing terrestrial with ovoid, slightly compressed, pseudopbulbs carrying a single, apical, thick, coriaceous, flat, auriculate towards the base, elliptical, equally attenuate at both ends, very shortly petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on an erect, to 16 [40 cm] long, 6 to 10 flowered inflorescence arising from the base of the previously developed pseudobulb with several distant sheaths and lanceolate, almost equal to the pedicel floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 inch [2.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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