Phalaenopsis inscriptiosinensis Fowlie 1983 SUBGENUS Polychilos SECTION Zebrinae Pfitz 1889 Photo courtesy of Eka Mulja Tjipta and his Orchid Species site

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Common Name The Chinese Character Phalaenopsis

Flower Size 1 to 1 1/2" [3.5 cm]

Found in central Sumatra on forests trees at elevations below 914 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with an abbreviated stem carrying 3 to 5, elliptic-oblong, undulate leaves that blooms on a racemose, decurved, 3 to 4 1/2" [7.5 to 11 cm] long, 2 to 5 flowered inflorescence with persistent triangular bracts and carrying sequentially opening flowers carrying 2 to 3 open at a time.

This species is often cited as a synonym of P sumatrana but differs in having smaller flowers and no tuft of hairs on the distal tip of the labellum and the calli arise from a basal thickening and are very difficult to see even under magnification..

Synonyms Phalaenopsis sinensis Hort. 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchid Digest Vol 47 No 1 1983 photo; Phalaenopsis, A Monograph EA Christenson 2001;

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