Phalaenopsis fuscata Rchb. f. 1874 SUBGENUS Polychilos SECTION Fuscatae Sweet 1968 Photo by © Lourens Grobler

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Common Name Darkened Phalenopsis - refers to the dark splotches on the lower halves of the sepals and petals

Flower Size 1 1/2" [3.75 cm]

Found in the shady lowland and hill forests of Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo and the Philippines? at elevations of sealevel to 1000 meters on trees near streams in shady forests as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a stem envelopped completely by imbricate leaf sheaths with a few to several, spreading, deflexed, obovate-oblong, thick acute leaves. This species produces yellow flowers with orange brown barring, and the lip is unusual. The sepals tend to be rolled backwards and are cupped. The orchid flowers in the spring and summer on a lateral, to 18" [45 cm] long, racemose or paniculate, many flowered inflorescence with fragrant, waxy flowers and opening successively over a long period. The inflorescence has small bracts and 2 to 3 flowers per branch.

Synonyms Phalaenopsis denisiana Cogn. 1899; Polychilos fuscata (Rchb. f.) Shim 1982

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959; AOS Bulletin Vol 35 No 1 1966; AOS Bulletin Vol 50 No 8 1981 photo; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Orchids of Borneo Chan, Shim, Lamb & Wood 1994; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Phaleanopsis, A Monograph EA Christenson 2001; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003

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