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Orchid Species: Rhipidoglossum stolzii
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Rhipidoglossum stolzii is an orchid species identified by (Schltr.) Garay in 1972.
ORIGIN: Found in Tanzania, Malawi and Zimbabwe in submontane and riverine forests at elevations of 200 to 1900 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte or lithophyte with an elongate, pendant, often branching stem carrying many distichous, oblong, obtusely bilobed apically, dark green leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on arising from along the stem, several, 1.2 to 2.6 [3 to 6.5 cm] long, densely several to many flowered inflorescence.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.8 inches [2 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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