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Orchid Species: Sarcoglyphis potamophila
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Sarcoglyphis potamophila is an orchid species identified by (Schltr.) Garay & W.Kittr. in 1986.
ORIGIN: Found only in Borneo in lowland and hill forests on branches of smaller trees often along river banks at elevations around 150 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature sized, hot growing, monopodial epiphyte with an unbranched, erect or porrect stem carrying a few, ligulate to linear-ligulate, unequally bilobed, either acute with a deeply V-shaped notch [Sabah] or bluntly rounded [Sarawak], coriaceous, tough, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the late winter through early summer on an axillary, low on the stem, horizontal to descending, laxly 7 to 18 flowered, 4.4 to 7.2 [11 to 18 cm] long, dull olive green spotted marroon to brown, quadrangular in cross-section, slender, glabrous, terete, with 2 to 3 small sheaths and ovate-deltoid, acuminate, glabrous to minutely pappilose floral bracts and carry long-lasting flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/2 inch [1.3 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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