Phaius indigoferus Hassk.1842 Photo by © Nik Fahmi and his Vortex Orchid Page

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Common Name The Indigo Blue Carrying Phaius

Flower Size 2.4" [6 cm]

Found in Thailand, Malaysia and Java at elevations of 300 to 1500 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with no pseudobulbs but close set, square in crossection, stems that can lie along the ground before turning upwards and carrying 3 to 4, plicate, gradually narrowing below in to the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, several [7 to 10] flowered inflorecence

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1855 Drawing fide; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1857 Louisia antennifera; Orchid of Java Comber 1990 photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Cribb & Wood 1994; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007

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