Phalaenopsis pantherina Rchb.f., Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 22: 298 (1864).
Phalaenopsis pantherina Rchb.f., Photo by Wahyu Wibisono |
its native range is Borneo.
Latin Name:
Phalaenopsis pantherina Rchb.f.
Family:
Orchidaceae Juss.
Synonym:
Phalaenopsis cornu-cervi var. pantherina (Rchb.f.) O.Gruss & M.Wolff
Polychilos pantherina (Rchb.f.) Shim
English Name:
The Panther-Like Phalaenopsis (refers to the spots on the flower).
Borneo name:
The Crocodile Tail Orchi.
Description:
With extremly thick, white roots and a short stem that is leafy throughout carrying oblong to narrowly oblong-elliptic, obliquely obtuse and sublobulate, pale green leaves and blooms in the winter and summer on a basal, to 20 to 45 cm long, racemose or few branched, terete, fleshy, strongly flattened, few flowered inflorescence with fleshy, distichous floral bracts and carries successively single, somewhat sweetly fragrant, waxy flowers.
Distribution:
Borneo.
Ecological:
In lowland to mixed montane forests in the canopy of tall trees as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte from sealevel to 800 m in elevation.
Flowering times:
Blooms in the winter and summer.
Flower size:
6.0 cm.
Cultivation:
LIGHT/LOCATION: semi-shady
TEMPERATURE: warm (20 - 24 °C
WATERING: Pour every 7 days
FERTILIZATION: once a monthTypus:
Reference:
theplantlist.org
https://www.ipni.org/n/650574-1
http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:650574-1
http://www.orchidspecies.com/phalpantherina.htm
https://travaldo.blogspot.com/2017/12/grow-and-care-phalaenopsis-pantherina-orchid.html
https://www.orchideen-wichmann.de/en/phalaenopsis-pantherina.html
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