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Orchid Species: Callostylis pulchella
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Callostylis pulchella is an orchid species identified by (Lindl.) S.C.Chen & Z.H.Tsi in 1984.
ORIGIN: Found in Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra, Sulawesi and Java in old mangroves, and a variety of other moist forest types at elevations of sea level to 1000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte or terrestrial occurring in humus, with a long, creeping rhizome giving rise to flattend oval pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 4 apical, oblong, shallowly and obtusely bilobed apically leaves and blooms on 1 to 3, terminal, white pubescent, erect, to 4 [10 cm] long, several, quickly, successively single flowered [to 20] inflorescence with the fleshy flowers held towards the apical end.
FLOWER SIZE: 1.2 inches [3 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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