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Jimensia scopulorum is an orchid species identified by (W.W.Sm.) Garay & R.E.Schult. in 1958. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Pleione scopulorum.
ORIGIN: Found in the eastern Himalayas, Bhutan, Myanmar, Tibet and northwestern Yunnan Province China on damp grassy and stony slopes as a terrestro-lithophyte at elevations of 2800 to 4200 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Found in the eastern Himalayas, Bhutan, Myanmar, Tibet and northwestern Yunnan Province China on damp grassy and stony slopes as a terrestro-lithophyte at elevations of 2800 to 4200 meters as a small sized, cold growing lithophyte on ledges of cliffs and humus covered boulders with a green, usually ovoid, slightly obliqu, tapering at the apex into a long neck pseudobulb and carrying 2, apical, developing at flowering, lanceolate, oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, papery, attenuate below into the petiolate-like base leaves that blooms in the later spring on an erect, 4 to 10 [10 to 25 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence.
FLOWER SIZE: 3 inches [7.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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