Plocoglottis hirta Ridl. 1908 SECTION Caulescentes
Photo courtesy of André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulenand Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website
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Common Name or Meaning The Hairy Plocoglottis
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Borneo in lowland forests on limestone or amid boulder scree at elevations of sea level to 600 meters as a giant sized, hot growing terrestrial orchid with a leafy stem carrying several, softly downy, pubescent, broadly lanceolate, acuminate, plicate, 5 nerved, cuneate into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late spring and summer on a 2' to 3.2' [60cm to 1m] long, lateral, axillary, stout, densely many flowered, downy pubescent inflorescence with pubescent, ovate-lanceolate, basally clasping and cupulate, distally falcate-recurved, caudate-acuminate, shortly pubescent, green floral bracts and carrying several stinky flowers
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 15 881 - 944 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1984; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 photo fide; Orchids of Borneo Wood Vol 3 1997 drawing/photo fide; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood & Beaman etal 2001 photo fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 9 2012 photo fide
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