Phalaenopsis malipoensis Z.J.Liu & S.C.Chen 2005 SUBGENUS Parishianae [Sweet] Christensen 2001 Photo by © Philip Wojtas and his Flicker Orchid Photo Site

Common Name The Malipo Phalaenopsis [A region of Yunan Province China]

Flower Size 1/2 to .65" " [1.2 to 1.6 cm]

Found in SE Yunnan China at elevations around 1200 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a short, monopodial stem enveloped by leaf bearing sheaths and carrying 3 to 5, mostly deciduous, usually 2 at flowering, slightly fleshy, oblong to elliptic, obliquely acute-obtuse, broadly cuneat-rounded below intothe base leaves that blooms in the spring on 1 to 4, basal, 3.2 to 6" [8 to 15 cm] long, green, racemose, laxly 5 to 10 flowered inflorescence with pale yellow-green, triangular-lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts

Eric Christenson considers this orchid the Chinese form of P lobbii.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Acta Botanica Yunnanica Liu, Chen and Ru 2005

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