Phalaenopsis mariae Burbidge ex Warner & Williams 1883 SUBGENUS Polychilos SECTION Amboinenses Sweet 1968
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Common Name Maria's Phalaenopsis [Maria Burbage - wife of Orchid Collector 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-ligualte to obovate-ligualte, fleshy, deflexed, acute or obtuse leaves and blooms in the summer on a lateral, pendulous, to 14" [35 cm] long, racemose or paniculate, few to many flowered inflorescence with small, distichous, triangular-ovate bracts and simultaneously opening, slightly fragrant flowers.
Synonyms Polychilos mariae (Burb.) Shim 1982
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 35 No 1 1966 drawing; AOS Bulletin Vol 38 No 3 1969 drawing; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 10 1970 photo; Orchid Digest Vol 38 no 3 1974 photo ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 52 No 1 1983 photo; Orchid Digest Vol 47 No 6 1983 1 st photo not 2nd photo fide; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 drawing ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 67 No 5 1998 photo; Phalaenopsis, A Monograph EA Christenson 2001; Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 photo ?; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003
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