Neofinetia richardsiana Christenson 1996 Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

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Common Name Richard's Neofinetia

Flower Size 1/2" [2 cm]

Found in Sichuan? China as a small sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with a short stem enveloped by clasping leaf bases and carrying several, alternate, distichous, rigid, linear, slightly recurved, conduplicate below intothe clasping base leaves that blooms in the spring on an axillary, 3/8" [8 mm] long, racemose, densely few flowered inflorescence

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide;

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