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Ione scariosa is an orchid species identified by (Lindl.) King & Pantl. in 1898. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Bulbophyllum sunipia.
ORIGIN: Found in Nepal, northeastern India, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and Yunann China on tree trunks in sparse woods at elevations of 900 to 2300 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with 3/4 to 1 [2 to 2.5 cm] between each ovoid to obliquely ovoid pseudobulbs carrying a single, oblong to linear-oblong, obtuse, emarginate to obliquely emarginate, basally narrowing, strongly keeled below leaf that blooms in the spring and early summer on a slender, glabrous, red brown, longer than the leaf, 4.8 to 14.4 [12 to 36 cm] long, laxly 12 to many flowered inflorescence with a slightly zigzag rachis, prominent, scarious [at flowering], ovate, floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/2 inch [1.25 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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