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Orchid Species: Crepidium decumbens
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Crepidium decumbens is an orchid species identified by (Schltr.) Szlach. in 1995.
ORIGIN: Found in New Guinea and ther Solomon Islands at elevations around 150 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, hot growing terrestrial with a decumbent rhizome giving rise tp an elongate, terete, densely leafy stem carrying erect-patent, obliquely elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, acute to acuiminateslightly undulate margins, petilalte base leves that blooms in the fall on an erect, graceful, strict to substrict, aangled, to 5.2 [13 cm] long, sublaxly many flowered inflorescence with deflexed, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, equal to the ovary floral bracts.
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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