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Orchid Species: Herminium elisabethae
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Herminium elisabethae is an orchid species identified by (Duthie) Tang & F.T.Wang in 1936.
ORIGIN: Found in the Chinese Himalayas, the western Himalayas, the eastern Himalayas, and Nepal in coniferous and broad leaved forests, glades in forests, flooded meadows and grassslands at elevations of 3100 to 4100 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Mini-miniature to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with oblong-ellipsoid tubers giving rise to an erect stem with 1 to 2, tubular, basal sheaths and carrying 2 to 3, basal, somewhat spaced along the stem, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, acute to acuminate apically leaves that blooms in the summer and early fall on a cylindric, slender, 3.2 to 12.8 [8 to 32 cm] long, subdensely many flowered inflorescencen with 1 to 2, sterile, lanceolate, occasionally foliaceous bracts and lanceolate, almost as long as the ovary, acuminate apically floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.1 inches [2.5 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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