!Diplocentrum recurvum Lindl. 1832 Drawing courtesy of © Enchanting Kerala Website

Common Name The Recurved Diplocentrum

Flower Size 1/4" [8mm]

Found in southern India, and Sri Lanka as a miniature sized monopodial epiphyte with a short stem carrying a few, very narrowly linear, acute, becoming conduplicate below into the clasping base leaves that blooms in the fall and winteron an axillary, erect, 7" [17.5 cm] long, subdensely 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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