Schlieben's sphyrarhynchus (Sphyrarhynchus schliebenii)
Description
Found in Tanzania and Kenya in evergreen montane forests on twigs and small branches at elevations of 900 to 1600 meters as a miiniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a short stem carrying 3 to 5, linear to elliptic, unequally and obtusely bilobed apically, fleshy, conduplicate and basally clasping below leaves that blooms in the spring on to several, 2" +[2.5 cm +] long, axillary, densely 6 to 10 flowered inflorescence carrying variable sized, glistening, white with green flowers
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum:
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Class: Liliopsida
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Order: Asparagales
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Family: Orchidaceae
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Genus: Sphyrarhynchus
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