*Phalaenopsis deliciosa Rchb. f. 1854 Subgenus Phalaenopsis Sect Deliciosae E. A. Christ 1986 Photo by Jay Pfahl
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Common Name The Delicate Phalaenopsis
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 ; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 as Kingidium deliciosa; Orchids of Borneo Chan, Shim, Lamb & Wood 1994 as Kingidium deliciosum; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 as Kingidium deliciosa; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995 as Doritis wightii; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002
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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