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spider orchid, scorpion orchid

Arachnis sp.

Description:

About twenty species of these epiphytic or lithophytic orchids can be found from Burma, Thailand, Malaya through Indonesia to New Guinea. Species of the genus Arachnis have frequently been used in hybridizing. http://www.orchidspng.com/Arachnis.html

Habitat:

Growing as an ornamental in a semi-urban yard/garden in the equatorial tropics of northern New Guinea.

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Scott Frazier
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Scott Frazier

Indonesia

Spotted on May 28, 2011
Submitted on Jul 31, 2011

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