Phaius flavus (Blume) Lindl. 1856
Photo by © Lourens Grobler.
Photo by © Patricia Harding
Photo by © Jean Claude George
Plant and flowers in situ Cameron Highlands Malaysia Photo by © David Kuehn
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Common Name Yellow Flowered Phaius - in Japan Ganzeki-ran - In China Huang Hua He Ding Lan
Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]
Found in Assam, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, China, Laos, Vietnam, Java, Moluccas, the Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatra, New Guinea, New Caledonia, Samoa, Vanuatu, Taiwan, Ryukyu Islands and Japan from the humid shady floors of broadleafed, evergreen primary forests in soils dampened by mists, on moss covered logs in scrub and in splash along steep watercourses in theat elevations of 200 to 3400 meters as a medium sized, hot to cold growing terrestrial, with conical to ovoid-cylindric pseudobulbs carrying 3 to 8, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, plicate, yellow to white spotted leaves and blooms in the winter and spring on a to 3' [90 cm] tall, erect, basal, laxly several to many flowered inflorescences with persistent bracts and several to many, yellow, long lived, fragrant flowers.
Synonyms Bletia flava Wallace ex Lindl. 1831; Bletia woodfordii Hook. 1827; Hecabe lutea Raf. 1836; Limodorum crispum Reinw. ex Blume 1856; *Limodorum flavum Blume 1825; Phaius bracteosus Rchb. f. 1857; Phaius celebicus Schltr. 1911; Phaius crispus Blume 1856; Phaius flavus f. punctatus (Ohwi) K.Nackej. 1981; Phaius flexuosus Blume 1856; Phaius indigoferus Blume 1842; Phaius linearifolius Ames 1912; Phaius maculatus Lindley 1828; Phaius minor Blume 1856; Phaius minor f. punctatus Ohwi in ?; Phaius platychilus Rchb. f. 1857; Phaius somai Hayata 1916; Phaius undulatomarginata Hayata 1914; Phaius undulatomarginatus Hayata 1914; Phaius woodfordii (Hook.) Merr. 1948
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