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Orchid Species: Diglyphosa latifolia
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Diglyphosa latifolia is an orchid species identified by Blume in 1825.
ORIGIN: Found in Yunnan Province China as well as Nepal to Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, the Philippines and New Guinea in dark spots in forests with lots of rich soil with humus at elevations around 1100 to 1900 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, warm growing terrestrial with a creeping rhizome carrying a tall cylindrical pseudobulb with a single, apical, plicate, oval, obtuse leaf which gradually narrows into a 8 [20 cm] long, purple stalked, petiole that blooms in the spring on a basal, 8 [20 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence enveloped basally with several, tubular to acuminate bracts and dark purple, narrow, reflexed, floral bracts that come over the ovary and holding the Bulbophyllum-like, foul smelling [chicken feces] flowers towards the apice.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.6 inches [1.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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