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Phaius amboinensis
Phaius amboinensis Blume, Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 2 (1856) 180
Type: Zippelius s.n. (Moluccas, Ambon) (holo L)
Synonyms:
- Bletia amboinensis Zipp. ex Blume, Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 2 (1856) 180
- Type: Zippelius s.n. (L lecto, chosen by Cribb, Orch. Samoa (1996) 56); Zippel s.n. (Ambon, Moluccas) (holo L, lost) - Phaius rumphii Blume, Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 2 (1856) 179
- Type: Rumphius, Herb. Amb. 6 (1750) t. 52 fig. 1 (Lecto, chosen by Ormerod) - Phaius zollingeri Rchb.f., Xenia Orchid. 1 (1856) 201, t. 76, II, 2-3
- Type: Zollinger 2849 (holo W) - Phaius graeffei Rchb.f. in Seem., Fl. Vitiensis (1868) 299
- Type: Graeffe s.n. (Samoa, Upolo) (holo W ñ28396) - Phaius papuanus Schltr. in K.Schum. & Lauterb., Nachtr. Fl. Deutsch. Schutzgeb. Südsee (1905) 139
- Type: Schlechter 14595 (holo B, lost) - Phaius amboinensis Blume var. papuanus (Schltr.) Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 1 (1912) 375
- Phaius neocaledonicus Rendle, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 45 (1921) 249, pl. 13 fig. 5-7
- Type: Compton 1408 (New Caledonia) (holo BM) - Phaius pictus T.E.Hunt, Victorian Naturalist 69 (1952) 27
- Type: Wilkie (Hunt) 513 (Australia, Q, Cook Distr., Bellenden Ker Ra.) (holo BRI)
Terrestrial, erect, stout, to 100 cm high; roots flexuose, elongated, finely villose. Stem erect, stout, angular or subterete, 30-40 cm high, 1.3 cm diam., in basal half with tightly clasping cataphylls, leafy towards the apex. Leaves circa 4, erect, apex pendent, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, at the base gradually narrowed into the petiole, glabrous, veined-plicate, 30-60 cm long, near the middle 5-8 cm wide; petiole short veined, tightly clasping the stem. Inflorescence axillary, erect, straight, with distant, tightly clasping peduncle-scales; slender, shorter than the leaves. Inflorescence laxly several-flowered. Floral bracts lanceolate, acuminate, shorter than the ovary. Flowers patent or pendent, spurless, glabrous. Sepals oblong, obtuse, 2.6 cm long. Lateral sepals somewhat oblique. Petals subspathulate, oblanceolate-ligulate, obtuse, as long as the sepals. Lip at the base concave, broadly cuneate, 2.4 cm long, in the apical part across the base of the lobes 2.6 cm wide, in the apical part 3-lobed, lobes almost equally large and equally long, obtuse, keels 2, parallel, a little widened in the middle, extending from the base to the apex of the lip, decurrent. Column slender, towards the apex somewhat widened, 2.1 cm long. Anther rounded, apex deeply notched. Ovary pedicellate, clavate, 2 cm long, glabrous. (After Schlechter, 1905, as Phaius papuanus Schltr.)
Flower white, sometimes lip light yellow.
Terrestrial in lowland forest, often in deep shade; 20 to 900 m.
Malesia (Java, Sulawesi, Moluccas, New Guinea, Philippines), Australia, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Samoa.
Papua (Indonesia); Papua New Guinea. See map
Warm growing terrestrial, requires shaded position.
February, March, April, June, July, September, October.
- Smith, J.J., Orchid. Java (1905) 198
- Smith, J.J., Orchid. Java, Fig.-Atl. (1909) fig. 148
- Schlechter, R., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 21 (1923) t. 132, fig. 496, as Phaius amboinensis Blume var. papuanus (Schltr.) Schltr.
- Grundon, N., Orchadian 11 (1994) 171, fig., pl. 30, as Phaius pictus T.E.Hunt
- Ormerod, P. , Austral. Orch. Rev. 59, 2 (1994) 14
- Ormerod,P. Checklist of Papuasian Orchids (2017) 37, as Phaius terrestris (L)
- Family Orchidaceae
- Subfamily Epidendroideae
- Tribe Collabieae
- Subtribe Not used
- Genus Phaius
- Section Pesomeria
- Species Phaius amboinensis
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Phaius amboinensis
Phaius amboinensis Blume, flowering plant, photo J.B. Comber, slide collection R.B.G. Kew, from Indonesia, Sulawesi Utara, Manado
Phaius amboinensis
Phaius amboinensis Blume, flowering plant, photo J.B. Comber, slide collection R.B.G. Kew, from Indonesia, Sulawesi Utara, Manado
Phaius amboinensis
Phaius amboinensis Blume, plant habit and flower analysis, drawing by Judy Stone in J. Stone & P. Cribb, Lady Tankerville's Legacy 129, fig. 123
Phaius amboinensis
Phaius amboinensis Blume, habit and floral analysis, drawing N.H.S. Howcroft 242, from Lolobau Isl. WNBP
Phaius amboinensis
Phaius amboinensis Blume, drawing by Neville Howcroft, based on W. Takeuchi & J. Waikabu 9780 in Sida 20 (2002) 473, fig. 9
Phaius amboinensis
Phaius amboinensis Blume, floral analysis, drawing J.J. Smith, from Janowsky 183
Phaius amboinensis
Phaius amboinensis Blume, column, drawing J.J. Smith, from Janowsky 183
Phaius amboinensis
Phaius amboinensis Blume, lip, column, and anther, drawing J.J. Smith, from J.J. Smith s.n. (from Ambon)
Phaius amboinensis
Phaius amboinensis Blume, flower, drawing J.J. Smith, from J.J. Smith s.n. (from Java)
Phaius amboinensis
Phaius amboinensis Blume, flower, lip, and column, drawing J.J. Smith, from J.J. Smith s.n. (from Java)
Phaius amboinensis
Phaius amboinensis Blume, lip and anther; cross-section through keels, drawing J.J. Smith, from J.J. Smith s.n. (from Java)
Phaius amboinensis
Phaius amboinensis Blume var. papuanus (Schltr.) Schltr., drawing R. Schlechter in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 21 (1923) t. 132, fig. 496
Phaius amboinensis
Phaius amboinensis Blume, herbarium sheet, Zippelius s.n. (Moluccas, Ambon) (holotype specimen L)