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Saccolabium quasipinifolium is an orchid species identified by Hayata in 1912. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Holcoglossum quasipinifolium.
ORIGIN: Found in Taiwan on tree trunks in mixed to coniferous forests at elevations of 1800 to 2800 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature sized, monopodial, cool to cold growing epiphyte with a spreading stem enveloped by sheathing leaf-bases carrying needle like, v-shaped in cross-section, linear, acute leaves which are articulated to the broad, short, imbricate, basal leaf sheaths that blooms on an axillary, slender, arching-pendant, 8 [20 cm] long, one to many flowered, racemose inflorescence with ovate, acute bracts occurring in the late winter till spring with flowers that are quite large for the size of the plant.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 5/8 inch [4 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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