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Microstylis heliophila 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 Crepidium heliophilum.
ORIGIN: Found in New Guinea at elevations around 1300 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, cool growing terrestrial with a short rhizome giving rise to a very short, somewhat thick stem carrying 3 to 4, erect-patent to suberect, elliptic, acute, glabrous, narrowing below into the subpetiolate base leaves that blooms in the late fall and early winter on a strict, thin, subangled, glabrous, to 2.6 [6.5 cm] long, laxly 4 to 17 flowered inflorescence with deflexed, lanceolate, acuminate, shorter than the ovary floral bract.
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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