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Polychilos maculata 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 maculata.
ORIGIN: Found in Borneo and Sulawesi in lowland to mixed hill forests at elevations of sea-level to 1000 meters on limestone hills at the base of mossy trees on moist, bare rocks.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte or lithophyte with a very short stem, completely enveloped by leaf bearing sheaths and carrying, 2 to 3, fleshy, oblong-ligulate, acute to bilobed apically, gradually narrowing below in to the base leaves that blooms in the winter with a lateral, arched, 2 to 4 [5 to 10 cm] long, racemose, few flowered inflorescence with small floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/2 to 3/4
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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