Luisia curtisii Seidenf. 1997
Photos by © L.Y. Th. Westra and the Preliminary checklist of the Orchidaceae of Laos Website
Photos by © Mr Back Packer
Photos by © Art Vogel
Common Name Curtis' Luisia [English Orchid Collector in Indonesia 1800's]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm] on trees in moist lowland forests as a medium to large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a non-branching, reclining to pendant stem carrying many, terete, obtuse leaves that blooms in the spring on a 1/2 to 1" [1.25 cm to 2.5 cm] long few [to 6] flowered inflorescence with ovate, obtuse floral bracts and carrying the flowers arranged in a spiral with only 1 to 2 open at any one time.
CAUTION There seem to be two forms that carry this name commonly and the references are split on which is correct. The first 2 photos are good for Seidenfaden and Comber, the second two photos are good for Chan/Wood and Vadhanaphutti, so use with caution. The fifth and sixth photos are what I had as L antennifera, but not. I need to see the type to be sure which or if all or none are correct.
Synonyms Luisia tristis Hkr.f 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Botanisk Tidsskrift bd 68 hft 1 Contributions to the Orchid Flora of Thailand V Seidedenfaden 1973 drawing fide; Opera Botanica #95 Seidenfaden 1988 drawing/photo fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing fide to the first photo; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993 photo good; Orchids of Borneo Chan, Shim, Lamb & Wood Vol 1 1994 drawing/photo not; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 photo good to the third photo; A To Z of SE Asian Orchids O'Byrne 2001 photo fide to the third photo; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo good to the first; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo fide to the third photo; Wild Orchids of The Cameron Highlands REACH 2009 photo fide to the 5th photoThe Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing/photo fide to the third photo; Philippine Native Orchid Species Cootes 2011 photo fide to the 4th photo; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 6 Epidendroideae Part 3 Pridgeon, Cribb Chase and Rasmussen 2014 drawing fide to the third photo
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