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Orchid Species: Oeceoclades zanzibarica
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Oeceoclades zanzibarica is an orchid species identified by (Summerh.) Garay & P.Taylor in 1976.
ORIGIN: Found in Tanzania, Pelma Island and Zanzabar in dense shade under mangos near sea level.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, hot growing terrestrial with cylindrical pseudobulbs enveloped in youth by a few scarious, ovate to lanceolate, acuminate, evanescent sheaths and carrying a single, apical, linear-lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, acute to acuminate, conduplicate and cuneate below into the base leaf that blooms on an erect, paniculate, elongate, 3.2 to 16 [8 to 40 cm] long, lax to subdense, many flowered inflorescence carrying flowers with green sepals and petals and a white or cream lip with purplish red veins on the side lobes and 2 purple blotches at the base of the mid-lobe.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.2 inches [5 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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