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Pleione mandarinorum is an orchid species identified by (Kraenzl.) Kraenzl. in H.G.A.Engler (ed.) in 1907. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Ischnogyne mandarinorum.
ORIGIN: Found in southern Shaanxi, southern Gansu, western Hubei, Sichuan and western Guizhou China on rocks in forests at elevations of 700 to 1500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, cool growing lithophyte with pseudobulbs enjoined with a short rhizome, each, subterete, slightly narrowed towards the apical half, strongly curved near the middle and prostrate in the basal half pseudobulbs and carrying a single, apical, suberect, thinly coriaceous, plicate, suboblong, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a 2 to 3 [5 to 7.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from the apex of a leafy or leafless pseudobulb.
FLOWER SIZE: 2.6 inches [6.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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