Phalaenopsis micholitzii Rolfe 1920 SUBGENUS Polychilos SECTION Amboinenses Sweet 1968 Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website

Full Shade Hot

Common Name Micholitz's Phalaenopsis [German Orchid Collector SE Asia 1800's]

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in the Philippines at elevations up to 400 meters as a miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with fleshy, oblong to oblanceolate leaves that blooms on an axillary, short, 1 to 3 flowered inflorescence .

Synonyms Polychilos micholitzii ( Rolfe ) P.S.Shim 1982

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI AOS Bulletin Vol 35 No 1 1966 Drawing; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Orchid Australia Vol 11 No 5 1999 photo; Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001; Phalaenopsis, A Monograph EA Christenson 2001; Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 photo fide; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003;

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