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Monorchis ophioglossoides is an orchid species identified by (Schltr.) O.Schwarz in 1949. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Herminium ophioglossoides.
ORIGIN: Found in Sichuan and Yunnan provinces of China on grassy slopes at elevations of 2100 to 3500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Mini-miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with ellipsoid to ovoid tubers giving rise to an erect stem with 2 to 3, basal sheaths and carrying a single, basal, arising from within the basal sheaths, elliptic-ligulate, acute to obtuse apically leaf that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a cylindric, ebracteate or with a single sterile bracts that is occasionally leaf bearing, 2 to 8 [5 to 10 cm ] long, laxly to subdensely many flowered with lanceolate, much shorter to almost as long as the ovary, acuminate floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.2 inches [5 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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