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Stichorkis philippinensis is an orchid species identified by (Ames) Cootes in 2011. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Liparis philippinensis.
ORIGIN: Found in the Philippines in mossy montane forests at elevations of 300 to 2900 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with close set, swollen pseudobulbs enveloped completely by imbricate, elongate, papery bracts and carrying a single, apical, erect, linear to narrowly oblong, gradually tapering below, acute leaf that blooms in the spring through fall on a terminal, erect, flattened, strongly winged, successively single, several flowered inflorescence with 2 ranked, close set, conduplicate, clawed, oblong-lanceolate, acute, deciduous floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/2 inch [1.25 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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