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

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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 ; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Borneo Vol 4 Woods 2003

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