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Chusua taiwanensis is an orchid species identified by (Fukuy.) P.F.Hunt in 1971. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Ponerorchis taiwanensis.
ORIGIN: Found in Taiwan on cliffs, crevasses and on limestone rocks at elevations of 1500 to 2000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing lithophyte with ellipsoid to subglobose tubers giving rise to a green with purple striations or a purple stem with 1 to 2 tubular basal sheaths and carrying 2 to 5, cauline, alternate, widely spaced, green, linear to lanceolate, becoming smaller and bract-like above, glabrous, acuminate apically leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, green to purple 2 to 4.8 [5 to 12 cm] long, 5 to 20 flowered inflorescence with erect, green or purple, lanceolate, acuminate, almost as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying purple, rose to rarely white flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.6 inches [1.4 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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