Phalaenopsis mariae Burbidge ex Warner & Williams 1883 SUBGENUS Phalaenopsis SECTION Polychilos [Breda] Rchb.f
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Common Name Maria's Phalaenopsis [Mary Burbidge - wife of Frederick William Burbidge- expert horticulturist, botanical artist, author and Orchid Collector later 1800's]
Flower Size 1 1/2" to 2" [4 to 5 cm]
A small sized, warm to hot growing epiphytic species that comes from the Philippines and Borneo at elevations around 600 meters on tree trunks and branches in dense shade with short stems enveloped by imbricating leaf bases and carrying distichous, oblong-ligulate to obovate-ligulate, fleshy, deflexed, acute or obtuse leaves and blooms in the summer on a lateral, pendulous, to 14 to 24" [35 to 60 cm] long, racemose or paniculate, few to many flowered inflorescence with small, distichous, triangular-ovate bracts and simultaneously opening, slightly to strongly fragrant flowers.
"This species can be confused with P bastianii but P mariae has a pendent inflorescence, a raised keel on the midlobe and the leaves and flower stem are freshly green to dark green and seldom has keikis." W Higgins 2019
Synonyms Polychilos mariae (Burb.) Shim 1982
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing good; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 8 1963 photo fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; AOS Bulletin Vol 35 No 1 1966 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 36 #5 1967 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 36 No 6 1967 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 38 No 3 1969 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 10 1970 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 38 no 4 1974 photo ok; The Genus Phalaenopsis Sweet 1980 drawing/photo fide; The Complete Writings on Philippine Orchids Vol 1 Quisumbing 1981; The Complete Writings on Philippine Orchids Vol 1 Quisumbing 1981 A P mariae var alba drawing/photo fide; The Complete Writings on Philippine Orchids Vol 2 Quisumbing 1981; AOS Bulletin Vol 52 No 1 1983 photo good; Orchid Digest Vol 47 No 6 1983 1 st photo not 2nd photo fide; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 19/20 1129 - 1264 Brieger 1988 drawing fide; Orchid Species Culture "P" Bakers 1991; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 drawing ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 67 No 5 1998 photo fide; Phalaenopsis, A Monograph EA Christenson 2001 drawing/photo fide; Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 photo ?; Orchids of Sarawak Wood & Beeman etal 2001; Orchid Digest Vol 66 #4 2002 photo fide; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; AOS Bulletin vol 78 No 9 2009 photo fide; Philippine Native Orchid Species Cootes 2011 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 77 #4 2013 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #9 2019 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 83 #4 2019 Photo fide
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