Phalaenopsis sanderiana Rchb. f. 1883 SUBGENUS Phalaenopsis SECTION Phalaenopsis Benth 1883 Photo by © Lourens Grobler.
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Common Name Sander's Phalaenopsis [English Orchid Grower 1800's]
Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]
Endemic to the Philippines as a pendant growing epiphyte with elliptic to oblong-elliptic, obtuse rounded, tapered to the conduplicate base leaves with green suffused with purple and overlayed with silver and a arching-erect, to 32" [80 cm] long, racemose or few branched paniculate inflorescence with minute, triangular, concave, scarious floral bracts carrying 15 to 20, showy, membraneous flowers occuring in the mid spring to late summer
Synonyms Phalaenopsis alcicornis Rchb.f. 1887; Phalaenopsis amabilis avr aphrodite subvar sanderiana [Rchb.f] Ames 1908; Phalaenopsis amabilis var sanderiana [Rchb.f] Davis 1949; Phalaenopsis aphrodite var sanderiana [Rchb.f] Quisimb. 1941; Phalaenopsis sanderiana f. alba (H.J.Veitch) Christenson 2001; Phalaenopsis sanderiana subvar. alba H.J.Veitch 1891; Phalaenopsis sanderiana var. alba [Veitch] Stein 1891; Phalaenopsis sanderiana var. marmorata Rchb.f. 1883
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Digest Vol 38 no 6 1974 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 38 no 6 1974 as P sanderiana var alba photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 49 No 4 1980 photo; Orchid Digest Vol 45 No 2 1981 photo fide; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 4 1985 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 56 No 6 1987 drawing; Orchid DIgest Vol 56 no 1 1992 photo; Orchid Digest Vol 59 No 1 1995 photo fide; Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 photo fide; Phalaenopsis, A Monograph EA Christenson 2001; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; Australian Orchid Review Vol 73 No 5 2008 photo;
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