Spathoglottis kimballiana Hook.f.1895

Photo by © Eric Hunt

Common Name Kimball's Spathoglottis [American Orchid Enthusiast late 1800's]

Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]

Found only in Borneo at elevations of sealevel to 1500 meters in lower hill forests and among rocks along rivers as a medium sized, cool to hot growing terrestrial with small, compact, ovoid pseudobulbs enveloped completely by several leafless, distichous sheaths and carrying, 6, plicate, narrowly linear-lanceolate, long acuminate, erect then arching leaves and blooms in the spring on a basal, 2' [60 cm] long, successively several flowered inflorescence with broadly ovate-elliptic, obtuse, strongly concave-cymbiform, olive-green, stained red floral bracts carrying a single to few flowers open at a time.

Synonyms Spathoglottis kimballiana var. angustifolia Ames 1915; Spathoglottis kimballiana var. antiquensis T.Green 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; The Complete Writings on Philippine Orchids Quisumbing 1981; Orchidiana Philippiana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984 as Spathoglottis kimballiana var. angustifolia; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 15 881 - 944 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1984; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchid Digest Vol 65 #2 2001 as S kimballiana var angustifolia photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 65 #2 2001 as S kimballiana var antiquensis A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo fide; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; Orchids of Borneo Wood Vol 4 2003 drawing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 9 2008 photo fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 2 2008 photo good; AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #1 2010 photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing fide

Spathoglottis kimballiana var. angustifolia Ames 1915

Photos courtesy of Peter O'Byrne, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III

Being found in the Philippines and Narrow leaves distinguish this variety.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philippiana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; The Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 photo fide

Spathoglottis kimballiana var antiquensis Hort. Sand. 1892

Photo courtesy of Ted Green

Also only found in the Philippines

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