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Ponerorchis lepida (Ponerorchis lepida)

Description

It is a small plant, which prefers cool to cold weather. It has a growing terrestrial habit with a small ovoid tubercle giving rise to a thin stem that has 2 to 3 leaves, usually basal, rather thin, linear-oblanceolate, to narrowly obovate-oblong, sharp, which narrow to a base subperiolate and blooming in a lax inflorescence with few flowers, racemosa with broad lanceolate and acuminate floral bracts.

Taxonomic tree

  • Domain: Eukarya

    • Kingdom: Plantae

      • Phylum: Magnoliophyta

        • Class: Liliopsida

          • Order: Asparagales

            • Family: Orchidaceae

              • Genus: Ponerorchis