Calanthe celebica Rolfe 1899 SUBGENUS Calanthe SECTION Calanthe SERIES Sylvatica
Drawing by Peter O'Byrne
TYPE Drawing by J J Smith and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Sulawesi Calanthe
Flower Size 1.44" [3.6 cm]
Found in Sulawesi in primary montane forests at unknown elevations as a small sized terrestrial with clustered pseudobulbs carrying 3, elliptic, acuminate, acute, undulate margins, gradually narrowing below into the 2.8" [7 cm] long, channeled petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter on an axillary, erect, peduncle terete, shaggily pubescent, 2 to 4 loose sheathed, to 11.6" [29 cm] long, rachis shortly pubescent, 6" [15 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate-ovate, acute floral bracts carrying violet colored flowers.
Very similar to C moluccensis but differs in the longer pubescent leaves, the narrower lip side lobes, the deeply lobed mid-lobe of the lip with quadrangular lobes rather than rounded and the longer spur.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Genus Calanthe Cribb & Clayton 2013; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 15 O'Byrne 2015 photo fide
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