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Orchid Species: Sarcoglottis homalogastra
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Sarcoglottis homalogastra is an orchid species identified by (Rchb.f. & Warm.) Schltr. in 1920.
ORIGIN: Found in Colombia, Peru, Brazil and Argentina.
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, warm to cool growing almost leafless at blooming terrestrial orchid with an erect, thick stem almost completely enveloped by the inferior, retusiusiculate bracts and the superior, with almost lanceolate, recurved, unequally retusiusculate apice bracts that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an erect to 8 to 10 [20 to 25 cm] long, densely many flowered cylindric inflorescence with non resupinate flowers and densely pilose ovaries, pedicels and the underside of the lip.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 inch [2.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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