
Phalaenopsis chibae T.Yukawa 1996
Side View Of Flower Photo courtesy of Dustin Dorton
Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Zainal Abidin Othman
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