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Orchid Species: Hetaeria youngsayei
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Hetaeria youngsayei is an orchid species identified by Ormerod in 2004.
ORIGIN: Found in Hong Kong China, Hainan Island and Thailand in seasonal evergreen forests and lower mixed deciduous forests at elevations around 120 to 900 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with slender, stems carrying 2 to 8, cauline, obliquely lanceolate to oblong to elliptic, acute to subacuminate leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on an erect, glandular-pubescent, 10 to 13.6” [25 to 345 cm] long, 12 to many flowered inflorescence with a [6.9 to 15 cm] long rachis carrying linear-triangular, acuminate, 1 to 3 veined, glandular pubescent on the dorsal side floral bracts with subsessile to sessile flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.2 inches [5 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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