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Orchid Species: Pinalia appendiculata
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Pinalia appendiculata is an orchid species identified by (Blume) Kuntze in 1891.
ORIGIN: Found in Malaysia, Java and Sumatra in montane forests in forks and tree branches of trees at elevations around 1500 to 2000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, cool growing epiphyte with close set, ovoid pseudobulbs enveloped basally by 5 imbricate, brown leafless sheaths and carrying 3 to 4 apical, erect, lanceolate, thick, unevenly and obtusely bilobed apically, gradually narrowing below into the periolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on 1 to 2, wooly hairy, red, 8.6 [23.5 cm] long, to 50 flowered inflorescence arising from near the apex of the pseudobulb and with large, greenish yellow, reflexed, concave floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.2 inches [4.5 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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