Phalaenopsis amboinensis J.J.Smith 1911 SUBGENUS Polychilos SECTION Amboinenses Sweet 1968 Photo by © Lourens Grobler.
Plant and Flower Photo courtesy of Nik Fahmi and his Vortex Orchid Page.
LATE
and EARLY
Common Name The Amboin Island Phalaenopsis
Flower Size 2 to 3"
A small sized, hot growing, epiphytic species from Ambon Island, Sulawesi, Papua and New Guinea and Indonesia in low elevation, shady, humid forests with year round rainfall with to 4, elliptic to oblong-elliptic or oblanceolate leaves that blooms on a lateral, arching, 18" [45 cm] long, racemose or paniculate many flowered inflorescence with small bracts occuring in the late winter and early spring with longlasting flowers.
Synonyms Phalaenopsis hombronii Finet 1912; Phalaenopsis psilantha Schltr. 1911; Polychilos amboinensis (J.J. Sm.) Shim 1982
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 4 1985 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 7 1985 photo; Phalaenopsis, A Monograph EA Christenson 2001; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 2 2004 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 8 2008 photo
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