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Orchid Species: Calanthe balansae
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Calanthe balansae is an orchid species identified by Finet in 1900.
ORIGIN: Found in New Caledonia in rainforests at elevations around 400 to 1250 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium to just large sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with an inconspicuous, swollen basally pseudobulb carrying 2, plicate, 5 nerved, light green, lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, acute, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that fall before the orcid blooms in the spring through mid fall on an erect, terminal, peduncle to 21.2 [53 cm] long, just longer than the leaves, to 28 [70 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence with 5 loose sheathing bracts and narrowly lanceolate floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/2 to 0.8 inches [1.3 to 2 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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