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Birth certificate
Phalaenopsis deliciosa
-Bonplandia 1854- |
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The delicate
Phalaenopsis
(from Latin deliciosus, delicate) |
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Distribution
Sri Lanka, India, Philippines, Bornéo |
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Kingidium deliciosum (Sweet 1970) |
Doritis hebe (Schltr 1913) |
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Aerides latifolia (Thw 1861) |
Kingiella hebe (Rolfe 1917) |
Doritis philippinensis (Ames 1908) |
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Doritis latifolia (Trim 1885) |
Phalaenopsis wightii (Rchb.f 1862) |
Kingiella philippinensis (Rolfe 1917) |
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Phalaenopsis bella (Teijsm & Binn 1862) |
Doritis wightii (Benth & J.D.Hook 1883) |
Doritis steffensii (Schlt. 1911) |
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Kingidium deliciosum var. Bellum (Gruss & Röllke 1993) |
Kingidium wightii (Gruss & Röllke 1995) |
Phalaenopsis hebe var. Amboinensis (J.J Smith 1917) |
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Phalaenopsis hebe (Rchb.f 1862) |
Phalaenopsis amethystina (Rchb.f 1865) |
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Et incorrectement car basé sur le spécimen mal identifié d'Aerides decumbens, qui était en fait un Phalaenopsis parishii |
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Phalaenopsis decumbens (Holtt) |
Aerides decumbens (Griff) |
Biermannia decumbens (Tang & Wang) |
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Kingidium decumbens (P.F Hunt) |
Kingiella decumbens (Rolfe) |
Polychilos decumbens (Shim) |
Leaves obovate-oblong, obtuse, slightly bilobate at apex, can reach 15 cm length on 5 cm wide, dark green with corrugated margins.
Arched Inflorescence, ramified, more or less shorter than the foliage.
Bracts small, triangular.
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Flowers
produced continuously during a long period, fleshy. Petals and sepals
white with pink or mauve suffusions and punctuations at the base.
Pink Lip veined with darker lines. Pink pastel column. Dorsal sepal oblong-elliptic, obtuse, lateral sepals obliquely elliptic with turned over lower edge . Oblong-elliptic, subacute petals. 3-lobed lip, lateral lobes erect elliptic-obovales, obtuse lip with a basal outgrowth. Obovale-sub-orbicular midlobe at cuneate base. Simple Callus, bifide. Column of 4 mm. Pedicellate ovary 8 mm long. |
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One finds it
since the sea level until an altitude of 600 meters.
Under the name of Kingellia philippinensis,
this plant was used to make a "intergeneric hybrid" known under the name
of Phaliella.
Synonyme Kingidium hookerianum (Gruss & Röllke 1995). This plant is also under the names of Kingidium wightii or Doritis wightii.
Yellow sepals and petals. Plant originating in the North-East of the Indies.
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