!Entomophobia kinabaluensis (Ames) de Vogel 1984
Photos courtesy of Dr. E.F. de Vogel, André Schuiteman and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website
Photos courtesy of Peter O'Byrne ©
Common Name or Meaning The Kinabalu Entomophobia [A mountain in Borneo]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Borneo and central Sulawesi in lower to upper montane forest at elevations of 900 to 2300 meters as a medium to large sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte or on limestone rocks as a lithophyte with close set, obolong to ovate-oblong pseudobulbs envelope basally by several imbricate, scarious sheaths and carrying 2, apical, erect, coriaceous, linear, acute, 3 to 7 nerved, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate, petiolate base leaves that blooms at any time of the year on a terminal, erect, somewhat compressed, slightly fractiflex rachis, [to 9.6" [24 cm] long, 15 to 42 flowered inflorescnece that arises with a new growth and carries the distichous flowers all facing the same way.
Synonyms *Pholidota kinabaluensis Ames 1920
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Monographs Vol 1 De Vogel 1986; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993 photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood & Beaman etal 2001 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001 drawing/photo fide Orchids of Borneo Wood Vol 4 2003 drawing/photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing/photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide
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