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Orchid Species: Mediocalcar decoratum
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Mediocalcar decoratum is an orchid species identified by Schuit. in 1989.
ORIGIN: From Papua and New Guinea and West Irian at elevations of 900 to 2500 meters in transitional montane forests in moist and shady locations.
DESCRIPTION: A mini-miniature, mat-forming, warm to cold growing epiphytic species that has cylindrical to almost clavate pseudobulbs with 3 to 4 fleshy, linear-narrowly elliptic, subacute to obtuse, shortly petiolate leaves at the apex all in one plane like the blades of a helicopter and blooms with a very short, apical inflorescence on a new pseudobulb growth with a solitary bell shaped, long-lasting, candy-corn like flower occurring mostly in the fall, winter and spring.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/4 inch [6 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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