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Orchid Species: Tainia cordifolia
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Tainia cordifolia is an orchid species identified by (Lindl.) Gagnep. in 1889.
ORIGIN: A cool to warm growing, forest dwelling, medium sized terrestrial from Vietnam, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan in broad leafed, evergreen, humid primary forests in soils dampened by mists and splash along steep watercourses and found at altitudes of 500 to 1000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: A cool to warm growing, forest dwelling, medium sized terrestrial from Vietnam, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan in broad leafed, evergreen, humid primary forests in soils dampened by mists and splash along steep watercourses and found at altitudes of 500 to 1000 meters with a short, creeping rhizome carrying cylindrical pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several, loose sheaths and carrying a single, apical ovate, obtuse to subacute leaf that blooms in the later spring and early summer on an erect, basal, lateral, [10 [to 25 cm] long, laxly 4 to 8 flowered inflorescence that has lanceolate, acuminate bracts and showy flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 1/2 inch
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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