Phaius pauciflorus (Blume) Blume 1856 Photo courtesy of Tan Eng Tiek

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Common Name The Few Flowered Phaius

Flower Size 1.8" [4.5 cm]

Found in Penninsular Malaysia, Java and Sumatra in deep forest near rivers at elevations around 600 to 1900 meters in the Cameron Highlands as a large to giant sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial orchid with close set, basally thickened, terete stems carrying about five to 6, plicate, oblong, acuminate leaves and blooms on a basal, to 8" [25 cm] long, several to many [8 to 15] successivly flowered inflorescence with persistent bracts.

Synonyms Limatodis pallida (Ridl.) Ridl. 1924; *Limatodis pauciflora Blume 1825; Limatodis punctata Lindl. 1885; Phaius pallidus Ridl. 1896; Phaius pauciflorus var. pallidus (Ridl.) Holttum 1947

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

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