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Sarcanthus merrillianus is an orchid species identified by Ames in 1920. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Cleisocentron merrillianum.
ORIGIN: Found only in Sabah, Borneo in lower to upper montane forests and riverine forests in crowns of large mossy trees at elevations of 1100 to 3000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, warm to cold growing, monopodial orchid with terete stems envelpoped completely by leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying linear-ligulate basally conduplicate, unequally bilobed apically, thickly coriaceous, juvenile leaves that become, terete, conduplicate below acute, falcate to straight mature leaves and blooms in the winter and spring on an axillary, to 3.4" [8.5 cm] long, several [8 to 15] flowered inflorescence that holds the simultaneous, long-lasting, unscented flowers close to the leaf axil.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.6 inches [1.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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