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 hill and low2er montane forest near rivers at elevations around 500 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] successively flowered inflorescence with persistent bractss.

The flower in the photo is old and as such the lip has begun to fold up. Normally it is quite open and broad.

Synonyms Limatodis pallida (Ridl.) Ridl. 1924; *Limatodis pauciflora Blume 1825; Limatodis punctata Lindl. 1885; Phaius pallidus Ridl. 1896; Phaius pauciflorus subsp. sabahensis J.J.Wood & A.L.Lamb 1993; Phaius pauciflorus var. pallidus (Ridl.) Holttum 1947; Phaius pauciflorus var. punctatus (Lindl.) J.J.Sm. 1920; Phaius pauciflorus var. sumatranus J.J.Sm. 1920

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1857 as Limatodes pauciflora; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 44 No 1 1980 photo not!; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo ok; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993 drawing ok; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2002 photo ok; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing/photo ok;

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