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Common Name The Tuber-Forming Phaius
Flower Size to 3" [7.5 cm]
A medium to large sized, Madagascan, cool to hot growing terrestrial species occuring at elevations of 200 to 900 meters with short, small pseudobulbs completely enveloped by leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying 5 to 6, suberect to spreading, longly petiolate, narrowly lanceolate, acute, plicate, leaves that blooms in the fall on a erect, stout, to 2' [60 cm] long, few to several flowered, apical inflorescence with successive opening, long-lasting flowers occuring over a long period and has a white bract at each joint.
Synonyms Bletia tuberculosum [Thouars]Sprengel 1822; Gastorchis simulans (Rolfe) Schltr. 1925; Gastorchis tuberculosus [Thou.]Schlechter 1925; *Limodorum tuberculosum Thouars 1822; Phaius fragrans Grignan 1901; Phaius simulans Rolfe 1901; Phaius tuberculatus Blume 1858; Phaius warpuri Weathers 1901
References W3 Tropicos [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html] , Kew Monocot list [ http://www.kew.org/wcsp/home.do ], IPNI [ http://www.us.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?request_type=search&output_format=query&ret_defaults=on Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1983 as Gastorchis humboltii as Gastorchis tuberculosus
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