Halleorchis aspidogynoides Szlach. & Olszewski 1998 Drawing by © Szlach & Olszewski

Common Name The Aspidogyne-Like Halleorchis

Flower Size

Found in Cameroon and Gabon in very humid forests at elevations of 850 to 950 meters as a medium sized, [in flower] warm growing terrestrial with a few, fleshy roots giving rise to an ereect stem carrying 5, spirally distributed in the lower half of the stem, ovate-lanceolate, acute, slightly asymetric, petiolate base leaves taht blooms in the winter on a 9.2" [23 cm] long, glandular, denser towards the apex, with 6 , slightly longer than the internodes, acute, semi-scarious cauline bracts, rachis to 5.2" [13 cm] long, very dense, 50 to 60 flowered inflorescence with densely glandular, narrowly lanceolate, langer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying tiny, resupinate, rose colored flowers.

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