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Orchid Species: Herminium alaschanicum
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Herminium alaschanicum is an orchid species identified by Maxim. in 1886.
ORIGIN: Found in Mongolia, China and the Chinese Himalayas in alpine forests or scrubby grasslands along valleys at elevations of 1800 to 4500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with a globose tuber giving rise to an erect, glabrous stem carrying 2 to 4, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, erect, spreading, acute to acuminate, gradually narrowing below into the amplexicaul base leaves that blooms in the late spring through early fall on an erect, terete, [4 to 27 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, erect, spreading, caudate apically, lower ones longer than the ovary floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/4 inch [8 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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