Calanthe flava (Blume) C.Morren 1834SUBGENUS Calanthe SECTION Calanthe
Photos by © Th. Nordhausen and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name or Meaning The Yellow Calanthe
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Borneo, Java, Sumatra, Lesser Sunda Islands and New Guinea usually in primary forests at elevations of 700 to 2900 meters as a medium sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial with close set pseudobulbs carrying 3 to 4, plicate, dark green, shiny, lanceolate, acuminate, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late spring through early winter on an axillary, 40" to [1 meter] long, shortly pubescent, many flowered inflorescence with recurved, linear, acute floral bracts
Synonyms Alismorkis parviflora (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; *Amblyglottis flava Blume 1825; Calanthe flava var. rubra J.J.Sm. 1898-1905; Calanthe parviflora Lindl. 1852
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing fide; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo fide; The Genus Calanthe Clayton & Cribb 2013 drawing/photo fide;
Calanthe flava var. rubra J.J.Sm. 1898-1905
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