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Orchid Species: Pinalia pachystachya
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Pinalia pachystachya is an orchid species identified by (Lindl.) Kuntze in 1891.
ORIGIN: Found in Thailand, Vietnam, peninsular Malaysia, Java and Sumatra in hill forests at elevations of 800 to 1900 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with an elongate, stout, rather soft cylindrical stem carrying 4 to 7, elliptical, towards the apex, narrowly lanceolate, narrowing towards the base leaves that blooms in the later spring and early fall on 3 to 5, obliquely ascending, to 4.8 [12 cm] long, basally brown pilose inflorescence with many, crowded flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.2 inches [5 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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