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Pogonia buchananii is an orchid species identified by Rolfe in D.Oliver & auct. suc. (eds.) in 1897. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Nervilia shirensis.
ORIGIN: Found in Central African Republic, Zaire, Burundi, Chad, Tanzania, Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe in high rainfall Brachystegia woodlands, riverine forests, grasslands and in pine plantations at elevations around 480 to 1950 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with a subspherical to ovoid, 4 to 7 noded tuber with a single, arising after flowering, erect to suberect, ovate to almost round, glabrous, pleated, obtuse to acute to slightly acuminate, attenuate to truncate to cordate into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later spring and summer on an erect, 6 to 16 [15 to 40 cm] long, terete, 1 to 3 flowered inflorescence.
FLOWER SIZE: 1.2 inches [3 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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