Phalaenopsis kapuasensis

 Phalaenopsis kapuasensis Metusala & P.O'Byrne, J. Pro-Life 4(3): 388 (2017).

Phalaenopsis kapuasensis Metusala & P.O'Byrne, Photo by Anas Sarully

its native range is Borneo (Kalimantan).

Latin Name: 

Phalaenopsis kapuasensis Metusala & P.O'Byrne

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Phalaenopsis kapuasensis f. flava G.Benk, Cavestro & O.Gruss

English Name:

The Kapuas Hulu Phalaenopsis (Refers to the locality of the type, a province of western Kalimantan Borneo).

Description: 

With a stem carrying 5 to 15, pendent, leathery, elliptic, rounded, more or less shiny green leaves that blooms in the winter, spring and summer on 1 to 8, pendulous, 20 to 50 cm long, successively to simultaneously, 5 to 15 flowered inflorescence.

Distribution:

Borneo.

Ecological:

In very humid lowland forests on trunks and main branches at elevations of 50 to 300 m as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the winter.

Flower size:

3.5 cm.

Cultivation:

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

Typus:

Locality:

West Kalimantan Province, Kapuas Hulu Regency

Type Herbaria:

holotype BO

Distribution Of Types:

Kalimantan (Borneo, Malesia, Asia-Tropical)

Reference: 

theplantlist.org

https://www.ipni.org/n/77165918-1

http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77165918-1

http://www.orchidspecies.com/phalkapuasensis.htm.

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