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Calanthe latissimifolia is an orchid species identified by R.S.Rogers in 1925. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Calanthe engleriana.
ORIGIN: Found in Papua New Guinea in humus in montane forests at elevations around 50 to 200 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, hot growing terrestrial with close set, small pseudobulbsa carrying 5 to 8, plicate, many nerved, oblong-lanceolate, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate basae leaves that blooms in the late spring through fall on an elongate, peduncle terete, rachis to 12 [30 cm] long, overall to 44 [110 cm] long, moderately densely many flowered inflorescence with persistent, ovate-oblong floral bracts and carrying spreading, successively opening flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 inch [2.5 cm] wide
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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