Phreatia sulcata

Phreatia sulcata J.J.Sm., Orch. Java 505.

Phreatia sulcata
Phreatia sulcata
Phreatia sulcata
Phreatia sulcata J.J.Sm.,  Photo by Jeffrey Champion

its native range is Thailand to Malesia.

Latinh Name: 

Phreatia sulcata J.J.Sm.

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Dendrolirium sulcatum Blume

Eria sulcata (Blume) Lindl.

Phreatia bracteata Ames

Pinalia sulcata (Blume) Kuntze

Vietnamese name:

Lan ren

English Name:

The Sulcate Phreatia.

Description: 

With close set, fleshy, globose to somewhat angular pseudobulbs enveloped by 1 to 2 leaf-like sheaths and carrying a single narrowly lanceolate, acute, shiny green above, matte and paler green below leaf that blooms in the later winter, spring and summer on a basal, on a developing pseudobulb, usually longer than the leaf, terete becoming angular, 20 to 30 cm long, densely many flowered inflorescence.

Distribution:

Borneo, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Philippines, Sumatera, Thailand.

Ecological:

In shady lower montane forests at elevations of 800 to 2000 m as a small sized, warm to cool growing orchid.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the later winter, spring and summer.

Flower size:

2.0 mm.

Cultivation:

Typus:

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- orchidspecies.com/phreatiasulcata.htm.

- ipni.org/n/650972-1

- powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:650972-1


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