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Leptorkis bistriata is an orchid species identified by (C.S.P.Parish & Rchb.f.) Kuntze in 1891. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Liparis bistriata.
ORIGIN: Found in southeastern Xizang, south and southwest Yunnan provinces of China, Assam, the eastern Himalayas, Myanmar and Thailand on trees and rocks or along roadsides at elevations of 800 to 1800 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, warm to cool growing lithophyte or epiphyte with densely arranged, cylindric pseudobulbs carrying 2, somewhat leathery, subelliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, articulate, acuminate, contracted below into the short petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a terminal, erect, subterete, nearly wingless, [18 to 24 cm] long, to more than 20 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate floral bracts.
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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