Phalaenopsis chibae T.Yukawa 1996

SUBGENUS Phalaenopsis SECTION Deliciosae E. A. Christ 1986

Side View Of Flower Photo courtesy of Dustin Dorton

Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Zainal Abidin Othman

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Common Name Chiba's Phalaenopsis [Japanese Discoverer of Species]

Flower Size 1/2" [1.2 cm]

Found in Vietnam at elevations of 400 to 600 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with elliptic to obovate, obliquely emarginate, lightly suffused with purple leaves that blooms on an erect, racemose, dull purple, to 4" [11 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence with to 13 simultaneoulsy opening flowers.

Synonyms Kingidium chibae [Yukawa] Gruss & Rolke 1997

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Pha

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