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Orchid Species: Chelonistele lamellulifera
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Chelonistele lamellulifera is an orchid species identified by Carr in 1935.
ORIGIN: Found in northwestern Borneo in elfin forests at elevations of 900 to 2300 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with .6 to 1 [1.5 to 2.5 cm] between eachvery slender to rather swollen, more or less terete pseudobulbs carryiung a single, apical, erect, herbaceous to coriaceous, obovate-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, plicate, 5 to 7 nerved, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late summer and fall on a synanthous, erect, 3 to 7 long overall, rachis 2 to 4 [5 to 10 cm long, curved to straight, somewhat zigzag, 7 to 11 flowered inflorescence with caducous at flowering, ovate floral bracts carrying slightly sweetly, fragrant flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 inch [2.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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