Phalaenopsis bellina (Rchb.f) Christenson 1995 SUBGENUS Phalaenopsis SECTION Polychilos
Photo by © The Orchidee Du Nord Website
Photo by Allen Black.
Common Name The Beautiful Phalaenopsis
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
This species is a small sized, hot growing, pendant growing epiphyte from Borneo in shady, humid, lowland and swampy riverine forests low down on trees often near or on branches overhanging stream banks at elevations of sealevel to 200 meters with an erect to ascending, short stem completely enveloped by persistant leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying pendulous, broad, rounded, light green leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on a suberect or arcuate, 2 3/4" [7 cm] long, racemose or paniculate, few flowered inflorescence with a flattened, fractiflex rachis and small ovate bracts and has only 2 to 3, highly fragrant citrus scented flowers open at a time. The inflorescence on older plants can rebloom year after year so do not cut off green viable inflorescence.
Synonyms Phalaenopsis bellina f. bowringiana (Rchb.f.) Christenson 1995; Phalaenopsis bellina f. chloracea (Rchb.f.) O.Gruss & M.Wolff 2007; Phalaenopsis bellina f. murtoniana (Rchb.f.) Christenson 1995; Phalaenopsis bellina f. punctata (Rchb.f.) Christenson 1995; Phalaenopsis violacea var bellina Rchb.f 1884; Phalaenopsis violacea var chloracea Rchb.f 1884; Phalaenopsis violacea Borneo Variety; Phalaenopsis violacea var. bowringiana Rchb.f. 1884; Phalaenopsis violacea var. murtoniana Rchb.f. 1878; Phalaenopsis violacea var. punctata Rchb.f. 1884
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957 as P violacea drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 11 1961 as P violaceae photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 33 No 2 1964 as P violacea photo fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Phal violacea in part; AOS Bulletin Vol 35 No 1 1966; AOS Bulletin Vol 36 #1 1967 as P violacea borneo typephoto fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 37 No 12 1968 as P violacea var bellina drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 37 No 12 1968 as P violacea var chlorea drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 37 No 12 1968 as P violacea var punctata drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 38 No 1 1969 as P violacea var bellina; AOS Bulletin Vol 38 #1 1969 as P violacea var bowringiana; AOS Bulletin Vol 38 #1 1969 as P violacea var murtoniana; AOS Bulletin Vol 38 #1 1969 as P violacea var punctata; Orchid Digest No 36 No 1 1972 as P violascens var murtoniana photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 37 No 1 1973 as P violascens var murtoniana photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 38 no 4 1974 as P violacea var murtoniana photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 47 No 8 1978 as P violacea photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 2 1979 as P violacea photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 49 #8 1980 as P violaceaphoto fide; The Genus Phalaenopsis Sweet 1980 as P violacea var bellina drawing/photo fide; The Genus Phalaenopsis Sweet 1980 as P violacea var bowringiana drawing fide; The Genus Phalaenopsis Sweet 1980 as P violacea var murtoniana photo fide; The Genus Phalaenopsis Sweet 1980 as P violacea var punctata drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 49 No 3 1980 photo as P violacea; Orchid Digest Vol 45 No 6 1981 photo fide as P violacea; AOS Bulletin Vol 52 No 1 1983 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 52 No 7 1983 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 5 1985 as P violacea photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 8 1985 photo as Phal violacea; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 19/20 1129 - 1264 Brieger 1988 as P violacea var bellina drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 19/20 1129 - 1264 Brieger 1988 as P violacea var punctata; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 as P violacea drawing fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 as P violacea drawing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 62 #3 1993 as P violacea photo fide; Orchids of Borneo Vol 1 Chan, Lamb, Shim & Wood 1994 drawing/photo fide as P violacea; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 as P vilolacea photo/drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 67 #3 1998 as P violaceaphoto fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 67 No 5 1998 as P violacea; AOS Bulletin Vol 68 no 5 1999 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 68 #8 1999 as P violacea photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 69 No 4 2000 as P violaceaphoto fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 70 No 5 2001 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 70 No 9 2001 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 70 No 9 2001 as P bellina var alba photo fide; *Phalaenopsis, A Monograph EA Christenson 2001 photo fide; *Phalaenopsis, A Monograph EA Christenson 2001 Phalaenopsis bellina f. alba; *Phalaenopsis, A Monograph EA Christenson 2001 as Phalaenopsis bellina f. bowringiana drawing fide; *Phalaenopsis, A Monograph EA Christenson 2001 Phalaenopsis bellina f. murtoniana; *Phalaenopsis, A Monograph EA Christenson 2001 Phalaenopsis bellina f. punctata drawing; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo fide; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood & Beaman etal 2001 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 66 #4 2002 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 7 2003 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 2 2004 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 8 2004 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 7 2005 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 1 2006 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 2 2006 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 7 2008 photo fide; AOS Bulletin vol 78 No 7 2009 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #7 2011 photo fide;
Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 77 #4 2013 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 84 #6 2015 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 80 #2 2016; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #4 2016 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #8 2016 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #9 2017 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 87 #10 2018 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 83 #4 2019 Photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #11 2019 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 89 #2 2020 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 89 #2 2020 photo fide
Phalaenopsis bellina ( Rchb.f. ) Christenson f. alba Christenson 2001
Photo courtesy of Bill Bergstrom
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Digest Vol 38 no 3 1974 as P violacea var alba photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 49 No 8 1980 as P violacea var alba; Orchids of Borneo Vol 1 Chan, Lamb, Shim & Wood 1994 drawing/photo fide as P violacea; AOS Bulletin Vol 67 No 5 1998 as P violacea var alba photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 70 No 9 2001 photo fide; *Phalaenopsis, A Monograph EA Christenson 2001 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 2 2004 photo
Phalaenopsis bellina f. bowringiana (Rchb.f.) Christenson 1995
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 37 No 12 1968 as P violacea var bowringiana drawing fide; *Phalaenopsis, A Monograph EA Christenson 2001 drawing fide;
Phalaenopsis bellina f. murtoniana (Rchb.f.) Christenson 1995
Photo by Jim L
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*AOS Bulletin Vol 37 No 12 1968 as P violacea var murtoniana drawing fide; *Phalaenopsis, A Monograph EA Christenson 2001 drawing fide;
Phalaenopsis bellina Green Form
Photo by Nik Fahmi
A green Color Form Of the previous species.
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