Spathoglottis pacifica Rchb.f 1868

Photo by © Rudolf Jenny and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Postage Stamp Photo by © Plant Stamps Website

Flowers? Photo By Orchid Website

Common Name The Pacific Spathoglottis

Flower Size 1.8" [4.5 cm]

Found in the Solomon Islands, Santa Cruz Islands, Wallis & Futna, Tonga, Vanuatu, Fiji and Samoa in rainforests at elevations of sea level to 400 meters as a large sized, hot growing terrestrial with ovoid pseduobulbs carrying plicate, lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, acuminate, gradually narrowing below into the elongate petiolate base leaves that blooms on a lateral from a basal leaf axil, erect, to 3' 4" [to 1 m] long, pubescent, densely many flowered inflorescence.

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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; Orchids of Vanuatu Lewis & Cribb 1989 drawing fide; The Orchids of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville Lewis & Cribb 1991 drawing fide; Orchids of Samoa, Cribb & Whistler 1996 photo fide;

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