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Cheirostylis oligantha is an orchid species identified by Masam. & Fukuy. in 1940. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Cheirostylis octodactyla.
ORIGIN: Found in Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines and Taiwan in damp areas of forests at elevations of 1000 to 2400 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Mini-miniature to miniature sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial ascending pale reddish brown, fleshy stem carrying 3 to 6, scattered along the stem, abaxially pale green, adaxially green, ovate to elliptic or sometimes orbicular-cordate, acute, abruptly narrowing into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an erect, short to less than .4 [1 cm] long, 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence enveloped below by leaf bases and not visible above the stem apex with pale green, ovate, shorter than the ovary, acuminate apically floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.4 inches [1 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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