Calanthe johorensis Holttum 1947 SUBGENUS Calanthe SECTION Styloglossum

Drawing by © Seidenfaden

Common Name The Johor Calanthe [A state of Malaysia]

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Johor state of penninsular Malayasia at elevations around 400 meters as a large sized, hot growing terrestrial with wide, plicate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, to 32" [80 cm] long, rachis to 12" [30 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with deciduous, cadacous, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying white flowers.

Synonyms Styloglossum johorense (Holttum) T.Yukawa & P.J.Cribb 2014

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Gard. Bull. Singapore 11:277 Holttum 1947; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Orchidaceae Holttum 1953 drawing fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 17 2016 as Styloglossum johorense ;

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