Phaius luteus Bosser 1971
Photo by Jay Pfahl © 2006 All rights reserved.
Photo by Fred Hillerman.
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Common Name The Egg-Yellow Phaius
Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]
Found in Madagascar in humid evergreen forests at elevations of 500 to 1100 meters as a medium to large sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with large ovate, slightly compressed pseudobulbs that are completely enveloped by several foliaceous leaf sheaths carrying 3 to 4, plicate, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate leaves that blooms in the spring on a basal, 2' [60 cm] long, several to many flowered inflorescence with fragrant flowers
Synonyms Gastrorchis lutea (Ursch & Toill.-Gen.ex Bosser) K.Senghas 1984; Phaius geffrayi Bosser 1971; Phaius villosus var. longibracteatus S.Moore 1877
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 10 1963 as Gastorchis luteus; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 15 881 - 944 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1984 as Gastrorchis lutea; An Introduction to the Angraecoid Orchids of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986 drawing/photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 71 No 1 2007 photo as Gastorchis luteus; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007 as Gastrorchis luteus photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 71 #1 2008 as Gastrorchis luteus photo fide; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009 photo fide; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 as Gastrorchis geffrayi photo fide; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 as Gastrorchis lutea photo fide;
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