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Phyllorkis angustifolia is an orchid species identified by (Blume) Kuntze in 1891. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Bulbophyllum angustifolium.
ORIGIN: Found in Malaysia, Sumatra, Java and New Guinea in primary forests at elevations around 1100 to 1800 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature sized, cool growing, often pendant epiphyte with a branched and often hanging rhizome with 1.2 to 4 [3 to 10 cm] between each long-ovoid, curved, shiny pale green pseudobulb and carrying a single, apical, erect, lanceolate-oblong, acute, narrowing below into the very shortly petiolate base leaf that blooms on an arising from the rhizome, length variable, .8 to 4 [2 to 10 cm] long, 3 to 7 flowered inflorescence with the flowers held in a loose apical corymb.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/4 inch [0.8 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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