*Phalaenopsis deliciosa Rchb. f. 1854 SUBGENUS Phalaenopsis SECTION Deliciosae E. A. Christ 1986
Plant and Flower Photos by Milan Vágner
Another Flower Photo by Jay Pfahl
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Common Name The Delicate Phalaenopsis - In Thailand Katachaw - In China Da Jian Nang Hu Die Lan
Flower Size 1/2" to 3/4" [1.5 to 2 cm]
Some authors attribute this name to Kingidium decumbens and vice versa, but Kingidium decumbens is a misused name and really would be a synonym of Phalaenopsis parishii due to a mistake in taxomony a hundred years ago. Ranging from India to SE Asia, Java, Sumatra, Borneo and the Philippines in riverine and lowland forests at elevations below 600 meters.
A miniature plant found in the Chinese Himalayas, Assam India, Bangladesh, Eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Sikkim, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Myanamar, Thailand, Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Borneo, Java, Moluccas, the Philippines, Sulawesi and Sumatra in riverine forests at elevations below 600 meters that grows well mounted on cork or tree fern, is a cool to hot growing epiphyte with a very short stem carrying, 3 to 6 oblong-lanceolate, undulate margins, apically slightly unequal leaves that blooms on an axillary, erect, racemose, to 8" [20 cm] long, often branching, many flowered inflorescence with the sequentially opening flowers facing all directions occuring at any time and more than once a year if well grown.
Synonyms Aerides latifolia Thw. 1861; Doritis hebe [Rchb.f] Schlechter 1913; Doritis latifolia [Thw.] Trim 1885; Doritis philippinensis Ames 1908; Doritis steffensii Schlechter 1911; Doritis wightii [Rchb.f] Benth & J D Hook 1883; Kingidium deliciosum (Rchb. f.) H.R. Sweet 1970; Kingidium deliciosum var bellum {teijsm & Binn 1993; Kingidium philippinenesis [Ames] O. Gruss 1995; Kingidium wightii [Rchb.f] Gruss & Rolke 1995; Kingiella hebe {Rchb.f] Rolfe 1917; Kingiella philippinensis [Ames] Rolfe 1917; Kingiella steffensii [Schltr.] Rolfe 1917; Phalaenopsis alboviolacea Ridl. 1893; Phalaenopsis amethystina Rchb.f 1865; Phalaenopsis bella Teijsm & Binn. 1862; Phalaenopsis hebe Rchb.f 1862; Phalaenopsis hebe var amboinensis J.J.Sm. 1917; Phalaenopsis wightii Rchb.f 1862
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1857; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1862; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1862 as P hebe; Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1868 as P hebe drawing; A Century of Indian Orchids Vol 5 Hooker 1895 as Doritis wightii drawing ok; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995 as Doritis wightii; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905 as P hebe; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 as P hebe drawing fide; Flora Of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957 as P decumbens; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 as K decumbens drawing photo fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Kingiella decumbens; Beautiful Thai Orchid Species Kamemoto & Sagarik 1975 as P decumbens photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 53 No 11 1984 drawing; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 as Kingidium deliciosa photo ok; Orchids of Kumaun Himalayas Pangtey, Samant and Rawat 1991 as Kingidium deliciosum; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Wood & Seidenfaden 1992 drawing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 63 No 2 1994 photo as Kingidium deliciosa; Orchids of Borneo Vol 1 Chan, Shim, Lamb & Wood 1994 as Kingidium deliciosum drawing/photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 as Kingidium deliciosum; Orchid Digest Vol 59 No 1 1995 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 70 No 12 2001 photo; Phalaenopsis, A Monograph EA Christenson 2001; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 as Kingidium deliciosum photo fide; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 as Kingidium deliciosa photo fide; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002 as Kingidium deliciosum; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; Australian Orchid Review Vol 71 No 1 2006 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 No 1 2007 photo; The Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 as Kingidium deliciosa drawing fide/photo ok; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 as Kingidium deliciosum photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing; The Atlas of Wild Orchids in Hainan Island, China Shenyan and Junmei 2010 as Kingidium deliciosum photo fide; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 as Kingidium deliciosum photos fide; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide
Phalaenopsis deliciosa subsp. hookeriana (O.Gruss & Roellke) Christenson 2001
Photo by Kjell Nillson
Synonyms Kingidium deliciosum ssp hookeriana [Gross & Rolke] Christensen 2001; Kingidium hookerianum O.Gruss & Roellke 1994; Kingidium hookerianum O.Gruss & Roellke 1995
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