Diplocentrum congestum Wight 1851

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Common Name The Congested Diplocentrum

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in southern India as a small sized monopodial epiphyte with a short stem carrying a few, linear, unequally bilobed apically, becoming conduplicate below into the clasping base leaves that blooms fall and winter on an axillary, pendent, 4" [10 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; The Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007

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