An orchid. It grows on rotting plant material. It can be 90-100 cm high. The flowers are greyish white. It forms large tubers under the ground. These can be 45 cm long and 1 cm wide.
Life form | perennial |
Growth form | herb |
Growth support | mycoheterotroph |
Foliage retention | - |
Sexuality | hermaphrodite |
Pollination | - |
Spread | - |
Mature width (meter) | - |
Mature height (meter) | 1.0 |
Root system | rhizome |
Rooting depth (meter) | - |
Root diameter (meter) | - |
Flower color | - |
Blooming months | - |
Fruit color | - |
Fruiting months | - |
Nitrogen fixer | - |
Photosynthetic pathway | - |
Light | |
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Soil texture | |
Soil acidity | |
Soil nutriment | - |
Hardiness (USDA) |
Uses | - |
Edible | roots |
Therapeutic use | - |
Human toxicity | - |
Animal toxicity | - |
Mode | seedlings |
Germination duration (days) | - |
Germination temperacture (C°) | - |
Germination luminosity | - |
Germination treatment | - |
Minimum temperature (C°) | - |
Optimum temperature (C°) | - |
Size | - |
Vigor | - |
Productivity | - |
LSID | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:635518-1 |
WFO ID | wfo-0000971539 |
COL ID | 3FDH3 |
BDTFX ID | - |
INPN ID | - |
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