!Nephelaphyllum pulchrum Blume 1825 Photo by © Sabah Tabin Widlife Reserve Website
Plant and Flowers Photos by © Karl Senghas and The Swiss Orchid Foundation At the Jany Renz Herbaria
Another Flower Photo by © Art Vogel
Another View Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding
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Common Name The Beautiful Nephelaphyllum In China
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Malaysia, Java, Sumatra, Borneo and the Philippines in damp shady places in mixed forests and lower montane and oak/laurel forests as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial orchid occuring at elevations of 300 to 2000 meters with a creeping, fleshy rhizome carrying closely spaced, fleshy, cylindrical pseudobulbs carrying a single apical, erect, ovate-triangular to cordate, acute to obtuse variegated dark and light green leaves that are flushed with purple that blooms on an erect, 4 to 6" [10 to 25 cm] long, very densly several [3 to 7] flowered, racemose inflorescence with the flowers held in a head occuring in the spring and summer.
CAUTION The first photo matches Comber's Orchids of Sumatra and Woods Orchids of Mt Kinabalu photos exacly and the first and second photo match Seidenfaden's Malaysia drawing closely, the other 2 photos show a more cowl-like unlobed lip and does not comform and they all could be N flabellatum. I await more information. Many references cite this species as being variable in flower form and these may be with in the parameters
Synonyms Nephelaphyllum borneense Schltr. 1906; Nephelaphyllum latilabre Ridl. 1893; Nephelaphyllum pulchrum var. sikkimensis Hook.f. 1890; Nephelaphyllum sikkimensis (Hook.f.) Karth. 1989; Tainia borneensis (Schltr.) Gagnep 1932; Tainia latilabris (Ridl.) Gagnep. 1932; Tainia pulchra [Bl.]Gagnep. 1932
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854 drawing fide; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1857; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide to the first photo; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing fide; Flora of Malaya VOl 1 Holttum 1957; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as N latilabre drawing fide to the first photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 4 1979 as N pulchrum var sikkimense; AOS Bulletin Vol 52 No 4 1983 photo; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas # 43-46 Thuniinae etc 1984 drawing/photo ok; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo fide; The Orchids Of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing/photo fide; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993 photo fide;AOS Bulletin Vol 63 No 11 1994 photo; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 as N borneense; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo fide; Orchids of Sarawak Beeman & Wood 2001 photo fide; The Orchids of The Philippines Cootes 2001 photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo ok; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; The Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 78 No 1 2009 photo; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo fide to the second photo; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing/photo fide to the first photo; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide to the 2nd and third
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