Calanthe ceciliae R.H. Torr. ex H. Low 1883 SECTION Calanthe Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids, Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved

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Common Name Cecilia's Calanthe [Daughter of the governor of the Straits Settlement]

Flower Size 1 1/2" [3.75 cm]

Found in Java, Sumatra and Malaysia at elevations of 500 to 2000 meters as a medium sized, hot to cool growing, terrestrial orchid on the forest floor and in crevasses on rocky limestone outcrops with clustered growths carrying 4 to 5, lanceolate to elliptic, acuminate, dark green, petiolate leaves that blooms on an erect, 15" [37.5 cm] long, racemose, pubescent inflorescence with small, lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts with several to many flowers occuring in the spring and summer.

Synonyms Alismorchis wrayi (Hook.f.) Kuntze 1891; Calanthe burmanica Rolfe 1907; Calanthe sumatrana Blanco ex Boerl. in A.L.van Hasselt 1884; Calanthe wrayi Hook.f. 1890

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Plantarum Vol 22 Hooker 1892 as C wrayi drawing fide; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing fide; Orchids of Malaya vol 1 Holttum 1957; Orchid Digest Vol 45 No 4 1981 photo fide; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel; Cribb & Laurent 1982; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Woods 1992 drawing ok; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo fide; A to Z of SE Asian Orchids O'Byrne 2001; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 12 2005 photo; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide

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