Phalaenopsis hainanensis Tang & F.T.Wang 1974 SUBGENUS Aphyllae [Sweet] Christ 2001 Photos courtesy of Sian Lim Copyright ©

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Common Name The Hainan Phalaenopsis

Flower Size

Found in China at elevations around 1900 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a short stem carrying a few deciduous, obliquely oblong, retuse leaves that blooms on a racemose to few branced, to 16.8" to 22" [42 to 55 cm] long, 8 to 10 flowered inflorescence with sparse, broadly ovate bracts and ovate floral bracts

Synonyms Phalaenopsis chuxiongensis F.Y.Liu 1996

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Phalaenopsis, A Monograph EA Christenson 2001

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