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Polychilos lueddemanniana is an orchid species identified by (Rchb.f.) Shim in 1982. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Phalaenopsis lueddemanniana.
ORIGIN: Found in the Philippines at elevations below 100 meters.
DESCRIPTION: This small to medium sized, hot growing, epiphytic species has an erect or ascending stem enveloped by imbricating leaf sheaths and carrying elliptic, obovate to oblong-elliptic, fleshy, acute or obtuse leaves and likes a hot environment with plenty of water year round and low levels of light. This species has 3 to 5, fragrant, longlasting, fleshy, waxy flowers and blooms in the spring through summer on a suberect, arcuate to pendant, to 12 [30 cm] long, thick, succulent, racemose or paniculate, many flowered inflorescence that is much longer than the leaves covered with small distichous, ovate-triangular bracts and does well in a pot and has a habit of making keikis so it is best to leave green viable inflorescence alone so they will bloom again..
FLOWER SIZE: Mostly less than 2 inches [5 to 6 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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