Phalaenopsis pantherina

"The Panther-Like Phalaenopsis is native to Indonesia, covering the Kalimantan district of Borneo, Sarawak and the island of Labuan near the coast of Sabah. These orchids grow on mossy rocks near sharp streams or in the canopy of tall trees in the lowland forest from sea level to 800 m in elevation." 

Phalaenopsis pantherina Rchb.f., Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 22: 298 (1864).

Phalaenopsis pantherina
Phalaenopsis pantherina
Phalaenopsis pantherina
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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