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Orchid Species: Appendicula torta
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Appendicula torta is an orchid species identified by Blume in 1825.
ORIGIN: Found in Malaysia, Borneo, Java and Sumatra in hill, lower montane ridge, oak/laurel forests and steep roadside banks of sandstone and shale, at elevations around 150 to 1600 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with an often branched stem carrying many oblong, unevenly bilobed apically, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring and the late summer and early fall on a terminal, sometimes lateral, 1 [2.5 cm] long, imbricating, several flowered inflorescence with imbricate, conduplicate, pink-yellow to white floral bracts that are longer than the flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.2 inches [6 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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