Phaius terrestris (L.) Ormerod 1994 Photos courtesy of Jim Comber, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III

Common Name or Meaning The Terrestrial Phaius - in Australia - The Pink Shepherd's Hook

Flower Size 1.4" [6 cm]

Found in Java, the Moluccas, the Philippines, Sulawesi, the Bismark archipelago, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, northern Australia, Fiji, New Caledonia, Samoa, Vanuatu, Cook Islands and the Caroline Islands at elevations of 100 to 600 meters in rainforest, monsoonal thickets, open forests, heathlands and grasslands as a large to giant sized, hot growing terrestrial with an erect, stem enveloped completely by many leaf bearing sheaths and carrying plicate, 7 nerved, progressively larger from bottom to top, elliptic, acute leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on an axillary, from the lower third of the stem on an erect 20" to 30" [50 to 75 cm] long, several [10] flowered, racemose inflorescence carrying the delicately scented flowers well spread out along top portion of the inflorescence.

Synonyms Bletia amboinensis Zipp. ex Blume 1856; *Epidendrum terrestre L. 1759; Geodorum terrestre (L.) Garay 1997; Phaius amboinensis Blume 1856; Phaius amboinensis var. papuanus (Schltr.) Schltr. 1912; Phaius graeffei Rchb.f. 1868; Phaius neocaledonicus Rendle 1921; Phaius papuanus Schltr. 1905; Phaius zollingeri Rchb.f. 1857

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854 as Phajus zollingeri drawing; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1857 as Phajus zollingeri; Xenia Orchidaceae Vol 3 Reichenbach 1878 as Phajus graeffei; Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1878 as Phajus graeffei; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905 as P amboinensis; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 as P amboinensis drawing ?; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as P amboinensis; Orchid Digest Vol 44 No 1 1980 photo ok; Orchids of Vanuatu Lewis & Cribb 1989 as P. amboinensis var papuanus; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 as P. amboinensis photo ?; The Orchids of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville Lewis & Cribb 1991 as P. amboinensis var papuana drawing fide; Lowland Orchids of Papua New Guinea O'Byrne 1994 as P amboinensis var papuana; Native Orchids of New Caledonia Societe' Neo-Caledonienne D' Orchidophile 1995 as P neocaledonicus; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002 as P amboinensis; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003 as P. amboinensis ; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006 as Geodorum terrestre; Flora Malesiana: Orchids of New Guinea Vol 5 Schuiteman & D de Vogel 2008 as Phaius amboinensis

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