Calanthe crenulata J.J.Sm. 1912 SUBGENUS Calanthe SECTION Calanthe SERIES Sylvatica
Photos by © Peter O'Byrne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria
Common Name The Crenulate Leafed Calanthe
Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]
Found in Sabah and Kalimantan Borneo in lower montane forests and on sandstone ridges at elevations of 70 to 1200 [1700] meters as a small to medium sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with ovoid pseudobulbs enveloped completely by leaf bearing, sheaths and carrying 5 to 7, plicate, elliptic, crenulate, acute leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on an axillary, erect, occasionally branched, peduncle puberulous, to 5.6" [14 cm] long, with 4 tubular bracts, rachis 1.2 to 2.2" [3 to 5.5 cm] long, overall to 7.2" [18 cm] long, successively 2 to 4, to 20 flowered inflorescence with persistent, recurved apically, ovate floral bracts carrying milk white to light yellow becoming salmon to orange in time flowers
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Plants of Mt Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993; Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 drawing fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing/photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide; The Genus Calanthe Clayton & Cribb 2013 drawing/photo fide;
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