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Pelma fractiflexum is an orchid species identified by (J.J.Sm.) Szlach. & Kulak in 2007. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Bulbophyllum fractiflexum.
ORIGIN: This Papuan and New Guinean and Solomon Island, unifoliate, epiphytic plant has a descending growth habit and occurs at elevations of sea-level to 2000 meters on high branches of large rainforest trees.
DESCRIPTION: Unifoliate, epiphytic plant has a descending growth habit and occurs at elevations of sea-level to 2000 meters on high branches of large rainforest trees with a woody, sheathed rhizome carrying narrowly ovoid to ellipsoid, smooth in youth and wrinkled with age pseudobulbs that are pressed against the rhizome for half their length and then curving away and carrying a single, apical, descending to suberect, ovate, lanceolate or linear, thin, glossy dark green, acute leaf with several raised veins on the upperside that blooms in the spring through fall on a basal, lateral, fractiflex, 2 1/2 [3 cm] long, racemose, few [8] flowered inflorescence that are shorter than the leaves. This species grows hot to cool and needs deep shade, wet conditions and is best mounted on a slab of tree fern as it is a spreading plant.
FLOWER SIZE: 3/9 inches [7mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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