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Orchid Species: Oxystophyllum carnosum

(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)

Oxystophyllum carnosum is an orchid species identified by Blume in 1825.
Genus
Oxystophyllum (Oxystophyllum.)
Grex
carnosum
(name currently accepted by Kew)
Parents
Species
Author
Blume
Year
1825
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ORIGIN: Found in Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Indonesia, Vietnam and Cambodia in lowland, hill and lower montane forests at elevations of sea-level to 1200 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte needing shade and high humidity and moisture from spring through autumn with clustered stems carrying 10 to 14 closely spaced, overlapping, fleshy, alternating leaves and blooms in the fall on a 1 long inflorescence arising mostly apically from a leafy or leafless stem with 1 to 2 fleshy flowers.

FLOWER SIZE: 0.25 inches [0.6 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Aporum Aporum carnosum 1983 (Blume) Rauschert
Add+ Aporum Aporum concinnum 1874 Lindl. ex Rchb.f.
Add+ Aporum Aporum rigidum 1981 (Blume) Brieger in F.R.R.Schlechter
Add+ Callista Callista carnosa 1891 (Blume) Kuntze
Add+ Callista Callista oxystophylla 1891 Kuntze
Add+ Callista Callista rigescens 1891 (Miq.) Kuntze
Add+ Dendrobium Den concinnum 1859 Miq.
Add+ Dendrobium Den rigens 1861 Rchb.f. in W.G.Walpers
Add+ Dendrobium Den rigescens 1859 Miq.
Add+ Oxystophyllum Oxystophyllum rigidum 1825 Blume
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Oxystophyllum. carnosum 'Irene' (2014)
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