Phaius callosus [Bl.] Lindl. 1831

Plant and Flowers in situ Cameron Highlands Malaysia Photos by © David Kuehn

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Common Name The Callousy Phaius

Flower Size 4" [10 cm]

Found in penninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Java, Sumatra & Sulawesi in montane forests on mossy boulders and leaf litter at elevations around 1000 to 1800 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with pseudobulbs enveloped completely by imbricate leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying plicate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the petilate base leaves that blooms in the spring on a basal, to 4' [120 cm] long, 10 t o20 flowered inflorescence with oblong, obtuse, concave floral bracts that fall off as soon as the flowers open.

Synonyms Geodorum plicatum Voigt 1845; *Limodorum callosum Bl 1825; Phaius callosus var. sumatranus J.J.Sm. 1920; Phaius kuhlii Rchb.f. 1865

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2002

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