Diplocentrum recurvum Lindl., Edwards's Bot. Reg. 18: sub t. 1522 (1832).
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| Diplocentrum recurvum Lindl., Photo by Mathew Jose Mathew |
its native range is S. India, Sri Lanka.
Latinh Name:
Diplocentrum recurvum Lindl.
Family:
Orchidaceae Juss.
Synonym:
Diplocentrum longifolium Wight
English Name:
The Recurved Diplocentrum.
Description:
With a short stem carrying a few to 10, close, keeled, very narrowly linear, recurved, acute, deeply bilobed, becoming conduplicate below into the clasping base leaves that blooms in the fall and early winter on an axillary, erect, racemose to few branched, peduncle rather long, 12 to 20 cm long, subdensely many flowered inflorescence with minute, acute floral bracts.
Distribution:
India, Sri Lanka.
Ecological:
At elevations around 1600 m as a miniature to small sized, cool growing, monopodial epiphyte.
Flowering times:
Blooms in the fall and early winter.
Flower size:
8.0 mm.
Cultivation:
Type:
Reference:
- theplantlist.org
- orchidspecies.com
- ipni.org
- powo.science.kew.org
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