Grammatophyllum kinabaluense Ames & C.Schweinf. 1920
Photo by © Tomohisa Yukawa1,* Akihiko Kinoshita1 and Nobuyuki Tanaka2 and Molecular Identification resoles Taxonomic Confusion in the G speciosum Complex Website
Photo by © Thilo Nordhausen and the Deutsche Orchideen-Gesellschaft Gruppe Nordbayern.
Common Name The Kinabalu Grammatophyllum
Flower Size 2.6 to 2.8" [6.5 to 7 cm]
Found in northern Borneo in lowlands and hill forests at elevations of 500 to 900 meters as a large to giant sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with an inflorescence that can attain a length of 10 to 13.4' [3 to 4 meters].
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011; Bull. Natl. Mus. Nat. Sci., Ser. B, 39(3), pp. 137–145, August 22, 2013 photo fide
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