Peristylus hallieri J.J.Sm. 1909 Photo courtesy of André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulenand Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website

Part shadeHotTo WarmSpring SummerFall

Common Name or Meaning Hallier's Peristylus [Collected type early 1900's]

Flower Size to 3/4" [to 2 cm]

Found only in Borneo in lowland forests, open secondary roadside vegetation, rough mossy ground, landslips and sandy areas beside or on rocks in riversas a terrestrial orchid at elevations of 50 to 1600 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing erect, tuberous terrestrial orchid with a stem carrying 12, basally arranged, narrowly elliptic, ensiform, acuminate, mucronate, 3 nerved, narrowing below into the leaf bearing sheath and blooming in the spring, summer and fall on a terminal, laxly many flowered, to 10.2 to 12" long [to 26 to 30 cm] long, racemose inflorescence with several, no-floriferous bracts and narrowly ovate-elliptic, acuminate floral bracts.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993 photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Borneo Vol 4 Woods 2003 drawing/photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing hmm/ photo ok;

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