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Phalaenopsis ochracea is an orchid species identified by (Rchb.f.) Carrière ex Stein in 1892. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Phalaenopsis lueddemanniana.
ORIGIN: A Philippine, small sized, hot to warm growing, ascending, epiphytic species found on eastern mountain slopes at elevations of 100 to 650 meters.
DESCRIPTION: A Philippine, small sized, hot to warm growing, ascending, epiphytic species found on eastern mountain slopes at elevations of 100 to 650 meters with very short stems enveloped by imbricating leaf bases carrying suberect, arcuate, oblong-elliptic to narrowly obovate, acute or subobtuse leaves that blooms in the fall on a lateral, suberect to arcuate, 4 to 10 [10 to 25 cm] long, racemose or paniculate, laxly few flowered inflorescence, shorter that the leaves, with small, triangular, acute, short floral bracts and fragrant, fleshy, star-shaped, magenta-purple flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 2 to 2 1/2 inches [5-6 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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