Phalaenopsis reichenbachiana Rchb.f. & Sander 1882 SUBGENUS Phalaenopsis SECTION Polychilos [Breda] Rchb.f
Photo By Ramon de los Santos
Photo By Dowery Orchids
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Common Name Reichenbach's Phalaenopsis [German Botanist and Ochid Specialist 1800's]
Flower Size 1.6 to 2" [4 to 5 cm]
Found only on Mindano Island of the Philippines along riverbanks at elevations of sea level to 500 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with a short to 2" [5 cm] long, robust stem enveloped completely by imbricate, leaf bearing sheaths and carrying suberect to arcuate, obovate-oblanceolate to elliptic-obovate, rounded apically, gradually tapering to the clasping base leaves that blooms in the later spring and summer on a suberect to arching, to 18" [to 45 cm] long, loosely racemose sometimes occasionally branched, few to several flowered inflorescence with short, triangular-cucculate, acute floral bracts and carrying waxy, fragrant [green apple] flowers
Synonyms Phalaenopsis kimbaliana Gower 1888; Phalaenopsis sumatrana var kimbaliana 1888; Polychilos reichenbachiana (Rchb.f. & Sander) Shim 1982
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 37 No 12 1968 drawing fide; ; AOS Bulletin Vol 37 No 12 1968 as P sumatrana var kimbaliana drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 38 No 1 1969 drawing fide; The Genus Phalaenopsis Sweet 1980 drawing fide; The Genus Phalaenopsis Sweet 1980 as P sumatrana var kinmbaliana; The Complete Writings on Philippine Orchids Vol 2 Quisumbing 1981; Die Orchideen lieferung 19/20 Schlechter/Brieger 1988 as P sumatrana var kimbaliana; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 19/20 1129 - 1264 Brieger 1988; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 19/20 1129 - 1264 Brieger 1988 as P sumatrana var kimbaliana; Orchid Species Culture "P" Bakers 1991; Phalaenopsis A Monograph Christenson 2001 drawing/photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 66 #4 2002 photo fide; Philippine Native Orchid Species Cootes 2011 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #7 2016 drawing/photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 83 #4 2019 Photo fide
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