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Orchid Species: Rhomboda yakusimensis
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Rhomboda yakusimensis is an orchid species identified by (Masam.) Ormerod in 1995.
ORIGIN: Found in the Chinese Himalayas, Vietnam, Taiwan, the Ryukyu Islands and southern Japan in forests below elevations of 1500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial with a dark reddish brown stem carrying 4 to 6, abaxially pale green, adaxially occasionally with a white stripe along the midvein, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, gradually narrowing into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, 2 to 6 [5 to 15 cm] long, laxly 3 to 15 flowered inflorescence with 1 to 4 sterile bracts and brownish red, ovate-lanceolate, lower ones longer than the ovary, ciliate margins, acuminate apically floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate flowers that do not open well.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/4 inch [7 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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