Phalaenopsis borneensis Garay 1995 SUBGENUS Polychilos SECTION Polychilos [Breda] Rchb.f 1864

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Peter Maxwell

Common Name The Borneo Phalaenopsis

Flower Size 1.82" [4.6 cm]

Found in the Borneo without location as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with an elongate [for the genus] stem carrying a few oblanceolate, obtuse, coriaceous, pale green leaves that blooms on a racemose to paniculate, terete peduncle, flattened rachis, 3.6 to 16.8" [9 to 42 cm] long, inflorescence with persistent succulent bracts and successively single, strongly 2 ranked flowers in a single plane with the flattened rachis.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; Phaleanopsis, A Monograph EA Christenson 2001;

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