Phalaenopsis pulcherrima

"Phalaenopsis pulcherrima (Lindl.) J.J.Sm. widely spread starting from north-east India through Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam and further south through Malaysia, Sumatra to Borneo" 

Phalaenopsis pulcherrima (Lindl.) J.J.Sm., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 32: 366 (1933).

Phalaenopsis pulcherrima (Lindl.) J.J.Sm. Video by Nguyen Hoang Tuan

its native range is Assam to Hainan and W. Malesia.

Latinh Name: 

Eriodes barbata Rolfe

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Doritis pulcherrima Lindl.

Accepted Infraspecifics:

Phalaenopsis pulcherrima var. apiculata (Aver.) O.Gruss & W.E.Higgins

Phalaenopsis pulcherrima var. marmorata (O.Gruss) O.Gruss & W.E.Higgins

Phalaenopsis pulcherrima var. pulcherrima

Phalaenopsis pulcherrima var. regnieriana (Rchb.f.) O.Gruss & W.E.Higgins

Vietnamese name:

Hồng tuyền, Nhài tím, Tiểu hồ điệp.

English Name:

The Beautiful Doritis.

Thailand name:

Ya Dawk Hin - Ma Wing.

Chinese name:

Wu Chun Lan - 五唇兰 .

Description: 

With a short, leafy stem, carrying oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, obtuse to subacute leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on a simple, erect to 100 cm tall, successively to 10, many flowered inflorescence.

Distribution:

Assam, Borneo, Cambodia, Hainan, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam.

Ecological:

In evergreen, lowland forests along canyons of montane streams and rivers on rocks and in sandy soils as a small sized, hot to warm growing, clump forming, lithophytic or terrestrial orchid at elevations of 50 to 600 m.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the summer and fall.

Flower size:

3.0 cm.

Cultivation:

Grow in intermediate to warm temperatures. Pot in medium fir bark and keep in moderate light. Water about once a week. Keep plant fairly moist but not wet.

Type:

s.coll. [7348], Vietnam Doritis pulcherrima K000891392 syntype

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- orchidspecies.com

- ipni.org

- powo.science.kew.org

- thuocdongduoc.vn

- travaldo.blogspot.com