Geesinkorchis phaiostele (Ridl.) de Vogel 1984
Photos courtesy of Dr. E.F. de Vogel, André Schuiteman and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website
Common Name or Meaning The Black-Brown Column Geesinkorchis
Flower Size .6" [1.7cm]
Found in Borneo and Sumatra in cloud forests on tree trunks at elevations of 700 to 2000 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with cylindrical, rather flattened pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, linear-lanceolate, acute, rather stiffly coriaceous, deeply canaliculate leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, rigid, elongating, 18 to 27.5" [45 to 68 cm] long, successively 1 to 2, many [50 to 100] flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Chelonistele tenuiflora (Ridl.) Pfitzer 1907; *Coelogyne phaiostele Ridl. 1910; Coelogyne ridleyana Schltr. 1910; Coelogyne tenuiflora Ridl. 1896; Pholidota triloba J.J.Sm. 1931
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Monographs Vol 1 De Vogel 1986; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 as Chelonistele tenuiflora; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood & Beaman etal 2001; Orchids of Borneo Vol 4 Woods 2003
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