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Orchid Species: Peristylus formosanus
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Peristylus formosanus is an orchid species identified by (Schltr.) T.P.Lin in 1977.
ORIGIN: Found in Taiwan, Japan and the Ryukyu Islands in open places and grasslands at elevations below 300 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial with subglobose tubers giving rise to an erect stem with 2 to 3 tubular sheaths at the base and carrying 3 to 4, in a basal rosette to somewhat spaced along the stem, elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, obtuse to acute leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on an erect, cylindric, 5.2 to 14.4 [13 to 36 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with 2 to 3, sterile, lanceolate bracts and ovate-lanceolate, basal ones exceeding the flowers, acuminate floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 inch [2.5 cm] long
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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