!Acanthephippium javanicum Blume 1825

Plant and Flower in situ Mt Kinabalu Photos by © Yoshi Nomurae

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Common Name The Java Acanthephippium

Flower Size 1.4" [3.5 cm]

Found in Malaysia, Java, Borneo and Sumatra at elevations around 760 meters as a large sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with cylindrical, elongate pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 4, plicate, oblong, acuminate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on 1 to 2, basal, to 8" [20 cm] long, 1 to 6 flowered inflorescence.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Seidenfaden & Wood 1992; AOS Bulletin Vol 66 No 2 1997 photo; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2002;

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