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Hylophila gracilis is an orchid species identified by Schltr. in 1911. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Hylophila mollis.
ORIGIN: A terrestrial species found on low hills in moss or humus patches in dense rainforests along footpaths and in small clearings at elevations of 50 to 900 meters occurring in Papua and New Guinea.
DESCRIPTION: Medium to just large sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial orchid with as elongate stem carrying 7 to 10, elliptic-lanceolate, petiolate, acute apically leaves where it blooms in the winter and spring in nature on a terminal, erect, 12 to 18 [30 to 45 cm] long, many [100]flowered, pubescent, racemose inflorescence with sequentially opening, resupinate flowers of which 10 to 20 flowers are open at a time. This plant has very interesting, variagated foliage that makes it one of the Jewel Orchids.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/10 inch [2.5 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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