Phreatia sulcata (Blume) J.J.Sm. 1905 SECTION Saccophreatia

Photo by © James Comber and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria

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Common Name or Meaning The Sulcate Phreatia

Flower Size .09" [2mm]

Found in Thailand, penninsular Malaysia, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Lesser Sunda Islands, the Moluccas and the Philippines in shady lower montane forests at elevations of 800 to 2000 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing orchid with close set, fleshy, globose to somewhat angular pseudobulbs enveloped by 1 to 2 leaf-like sheaths and carrying a single narrowly lanceolate, acute, shiny green above, matte and paler green below leaf that blooms in the later winter, spring and summer on a basal, on a developing pseudobulb, usually longer than the leaf, terete becoming angular, 10 to 12" [20 to 30 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence

Synonyms *Dendrolirium sulcatum Blume 1825; Eria sulcata (Blume) Lindl. 1830; Phreatia bracteata Ames 1910; Pinalia sulcata (Blume) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Die Orchideen Von Java J.J. Sm. 1905; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J. Sm. 1908 drwaing fide; Orchidaceea of german New Guinea Schlechter 1913; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1961 drawing ok; The Complete Writings on Philippine Orchids Vol 1 Quisumbing 1981; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing ok; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 photo good

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