Phalaenopsis maculata Rchb.f 1881 SUBGENUS Polychilos SECTION Amboinenses Sweet 1968 Photo by © Lourens Grobler

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Common Name The Spotted Phalaenopsis

Flower Size 1/2 to 3/4"

Found in Borneo and Sulawesi in lowland to mixed hill forests at elevations of sealevel to 1000 meters on limestone hills at the base of mossy trees on moist, bare rocks as a small to medium sized warm to cool growing, miniature epiphyte or lithophyte with a very short stem, completely enveloped by leaf bearing sheaths and carrying, 2 to 3, fleshy, oblong-ligulate, acute to bilobed apically, gradually narrwoing below in to the base leaves that blooms with a lateral, arched, 2 to 4" [5 to 10 cm] long, racemose, few flowered inflorescence with small floral bracts.

Synonyms Phalaenopsis cruciata Schltr. 1910; Phalaenopsis maculata f. flava Christenson 2001; Phalaenopsis muscicola Ridl. 1893; Polychilos maculata (Rchb. f.) Shim 1982

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 35 No 1 1966; AOS Bulletin Vol 38 No 3 1969 drawing; Orchid Digest Vol 46 No 1 1982 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 49 No 4 1985 photo fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Wood & Seidenfaden 1992 drawing/photo fide; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993; Orchids of Borneo Vol 1 Chan, Lamb, Shim & Wood 1994 drawing/photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 drawing ok; Phalaenopsis, A Monograph EA Christenson 2001;

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