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Sarcanthus callosus is an orchid species identified by (Blume) Rchb.f. in 1857. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Micropera callosa.
ORIGIN: Found in Borneo, Java and Sumatra in hill forests at elevations of sea-level to 300 meters scrambling over tree branches overhanging rivers and streams or climbing up tree trunks on roadsides.
DESCRIPTION: Large sized, hot growing, monopodial epiphyte or sometime terrestrial with climbing stems carrying 2 ranked, strap-shaped, apically shallowly and unevenly bilobed leaves that blooms in the spring, summer and fall with an erect, racemose to sometimes single branched, 4.8 to 7.2 [12 to 18 cm] long, few to several flowered inflorescence with shortly triangular floral bracts and carries a few to several, non-resupinate flowers with 4 to 5 open at any one time.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.4 inches [1 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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