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Phyllorkis cylindracea is an orchid species identified by (Wall. ex Lindl.) Kuntze in 1891. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Bulbophyllum cylindraceum.
ORIGIN: Found in Yunnan province of China, Nepal, eastern Himalayas, Sikkim, India, Nepal, western Himalayas, Myanmar and Thailand in forests on trees and rocks at elevations of 1400 to 2400 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte with a creeping, stout rhizome with .2 to .25 [5 to 7 mm] between each very small top absent pseudobulb and carrying a rigid, erect, elliptic-oblong to obovate-lanceolate, fleshy to leathery, obtuse to apiculate, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, channeled, petiolate base leaf. The basal, erect then arching to pendent, densely many flowered inflorescence can be up to 12 to 18 [ 30 to 45 cm] long and has a basal sheath and occurs in the fall and early winter.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.3 inches [8 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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