Mediocalcar decoratum Schuit. 1989 Photo courtesy of Joseph Dougherty.

Another Clone Photo courtesy of Jim Sundstrom.

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Common Name The Charming Mediocalcar

Flower Size 1/4" [6 mm]

A mini-miniature, mat-forming, cool to cold growing epiphytic species from Papua and New Guinea and West Irian at elevations of 900 to 2500 meters in transitional montane forests in moist and shady locations that has cylindrical to almost clavate psuedobulbs with 3 to 4 fleshy, linear-narrowly elliptic, subacute to obtuse, shortly petiolate leaves at the apex all in one plane like the blades of a helicopter and blooms with a very short, apical inflorescence on a new psuedobulb growth with a solitary bell shaped, long-lasting, candy-corn flower occuring mostly in the fall, winter and spring.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol IV Shuiteman and de Vogel 2006

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