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Phalaenopsis
celebensis (Sweet 1980)
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The Celebes
Phalaenopsis
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Distribution
: Célèbes (Sulawesi)
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No synonym
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Epiphytic plant,
pendent, with fleshy roots.
Very short stem completely covered by imbricating
leaf sheaths.
Leaves very few, green marbled of silver
white, obovate-oblong, rounded or obtuse, sub-sessile, long 17 cm or more,
6 cm wide .
Flower stalk arched or pendent, twice longer
than the leaves, rachis purple green carrying many flowers.
Bracts small, inconspicuous.
Flower showy. Dorsal sepal erect, suborbicular-spathulate,
concave, obtuse. Lateral sepals spreading, obliquely ovate, obtuse to rounded. |
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Incurved petals,
transversely reniform-elliptic, retuse, with apex slightly notched.
3-lobed lip, open, lateral lobes suborbicular-spathulate
with a fleshy ridge in middle. Midlobe concave, ovate-elliptic,
apiculate. At the junction of the three lobes, is located a callus
acuminate, triangular, with somewhat erose margins.
Column
erect of 8 mm long or more.
Pedicellate
ovary of 2,5 cm long.
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Phalaenopsis celebensis. Details
according to J.J.Smith
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Observations
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White sepals
and petals, the latter with a brown spot in their medium. Midlobe
base striped with brown. Base lateral lobes mottled yellow
and brown. Above of column pink . The form of the petals is
unique in the genus. Also particular the column with two beginning
of appendice.
Flowering
time essentially in summer, abundant and long duration. Introduced
and cultivated by Karthaus and Dakkus in 1934 then by J.J. Smith
in Leyde.
Nothing is known on it ecology.
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The very curious flower
of Phalaenopsis celebensis seen profile
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Average temperature humidity and
pluviometry, in the area of Mandano in the Sulawesi islands to the sea
level
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