!Holcoglossum quasipinifolium (Hayata) Schltr. 1919 Photo by © Lourens Grobler

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Common Name The Pine Needle-Leafed Holcoglossum

Flower Size 1 5/8" [4 cm]

Found in Taiwan at elevations around 2200 meters as a miniature sized, monopodial, cool growing epiphyte with a spreading stem enveloped by sheathing leaf-bases carrying needle like, v-shaped in cross-section, linear, acute leaves which are articulated to the broad, short, imbricate, basal leaf sheaths that blooms on an axillary, slender, arching-pendant, 8" [20 cm] long, one to many flowered, racemose inflorescence with ovate, acute bracts occuring in the late winter till spring with flowers that are quite large for the size of the plant.

Synonyms *Saccolabium quasipinifolium Hayata 1912

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones plantarum formosanarum nec non et contributiones ad floram formosana Hayata 1912 as Saccolabium quasipinifolium; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 1 1985 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 64 No 12 1995;

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