Chelonistele devogelii Schuit. Mar 2012 Photo by © Tom Ballinger and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Photos by © Art Vogel
Photo by © Rogier Van Vugt and his Orchid Photo Website
Common Name de Vogel's Chelonistele [Dutch Orchidologist current]
Flower Size 1.8" [4.5 cm]
Found in Sarawak Borneo in montane and elfin forests on trunks and main branches often in mosses at elevations of 1500 to 2000 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing epiphyte that differs from the type mainly in the color [white] and in the much larger flower and blooms in the later spring on a proteranthous to synanthous, slightly zigzag, to 10.8" [to 27 cm] long, 4 to 12 flowered inflorescence with ovate to ovate-oblong, glabrous to slightly minutely hairy floral bracts.
Synonyms Chelonistele lurida Pfitzer var. grandiflora de Vogel 1984
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Monographs Vol 1 de Vogel 1984 drawing fide; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman & Wood 2001 as C lurida var grandiflora photo fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 9 2012 as C lurida var grandiflora photo fide
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