Calanthe gibbsiae Rolfe 1914 SUBGENUS Calanthe SECTION Calanthe SERIES Triplicata
Photos by © Peter O'Byrne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Drawing by © Sarah Thomas
TYPE Collection Sheet by © Gibbs Kew's Plants of the World Online Webstie
MID 
THROUGH LATER
and again LATER
THROUGH MID 
Common Name Gibbs Calanthe [English wife of Botanist 1800's]
Flower Size .88 to 1.6" [2.2 to 4 cm]
Found in Borneo in lower montane forests at elevations of 200 to 1000 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with clustered, small pseudobulbs carrying plicate, 5 main nerved, elliptic-oblanceolate, abruptly acuminate, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the mid winter through later spring and again in the later summer through mid fall on an erect, peduncle to 34" [85 cm] long, 3 sheathing bracts widely spaced, rachis pubescent, to 1.2 to 4.8" [3 to 12 cm] long, overall to 35.2 to 42.8" [88 to 97 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with persistent, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts.
Synonyms Calanthe veratrifolia var. lancipetala J.J.Sm. 1930
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; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood & Beaman etal 2001; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 photo fide; The Genus Calanthe Clayton & Cribb 2013 photo good
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