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Disticholiparis gibbosa is an orchid species identified by (Finet) Marg. & Szlach. in 2004. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Stichorkis gibbosa.
ORIGIN: Found in the Indian subcontinent, Thailand, Indochina, Pennisular Malaysia, Borneo, Java, Sumatra, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Samoa, Vanuatu, Fiji, Sulawesi and New Caledonia on mountain ridges at elevations around 200 to 1900 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte on trees on cliff faces or lithophyte on rocks with small compressed, ovoid pseudobulbs carrying a single apical, linear, acute leaf blooming in the summer and fall on a 6 long, flattened, imbricating inflorescence with 2 ranked bracts and carrying many successive flowers with mostly one [often called L mucronata by mistake] or 2 at a time.
FLOWER SIZE: To 3/8
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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