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Thelychiton argyropus is an orchid species identified by Endl. in 1833. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Bulbophyllum argyropus.
ORIGIN: Found in Norfolk Is, Queensland and New South Wales Australia and New Zealand in highland rainforests in the upper branches of trees or on branches and rocks beneath them at elevations of 600 to 1000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte or lithophyte with crowded, furrowed and minutely warty pseudobulbs enveloped in youth by a white papery bract and carrying a single, apical, dark green, tough, oblong, obtuse leaf that blooms in the mid-winter through spring on a thread-like, minutely warty, .6 to 1.2 [1.5 to 3 cm] long, 1 to 4 flowered inflorescence.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.2 to 0.24 inches [5 to 6 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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