Phalaenopsis floresensis Fowlie 1993 SUBGENUS Phalaenopsis SECTION Polychilos [Breda] Rchb.f
Photo by Peter Zerche
Photo by Art Vogel
Common Name The Flores Island Phalaenopsis [An island within Indonesia on the Lesser Sunda Islands]
Flower Size 1.4 to 1.6" [3.5 to 4 cm]
Found on the island of Flores in Indonesia in forests often near waterfalls at elevations of 100 to 500 meters as a medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with 5 to 7, narrowly ovate to elliptic, obtuse leaves and blooms in the spring on 4 to 8" [10 to 20 cm] long, shorter than the leaf, few [2 to 3] flowered inflorescence carrying strongly fragrant flowers.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchid Digest Vol 57 No 1 1993 photo fide; Phalaenopsis, A Monograph EA Christenson 2001 photo good; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001; Orchid Digest Vol 66 #4 2002 photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 83 #4 2019 Photo fide
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