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Phalaenopsis
hieroglyphica ( Sweet 1969)
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plant, pendent in nature ?, sub-erect in culture. Stem short, completely covered whit imbricating leaf-sheaths. Roots coarse, fleshy, not very flexible, glabrous. Leaves few to many, rather coriace, oblong-ligulate, acute or obtuse, with conduplicate base, more than 30 cm long, 9 cm wide. Flower stalk sub-erect or arcuate, simple or branched, longer than the foliage, very flowered. Bracts ovate, cucullate, acute, of 5 mm long. Flower with strong texture and of long duration, 5 to 6 cm. Sepal dorsal elliptic or ovate-elliptic, acute, dorsally ducted at apex. Lateral sepals identical to dorsal sepal, but slightly oblique, with more prominent hull dorsal finishing in a peak sharp-edged. |
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Observations
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The backround colour of the flower varies from white to cream, sometimes tips of segments can be green or with green suffusions. Sepals and petals are richly decorated with marks grooves more or less dark, consistent in many small points alternating with bars or circles. Flowering of very long duration, estival, continuing in autumn. The flowers have the effect of opening out simultaneously. An increasing day lenght may be at origin of the flowering time. Different from Phalaenopsis lueddemanniana by its great dimension and the architecture of the callus located between lateral lobes. More superficially, its colouring is single. Not recognized for hybrids registration until 2003. Crossed with Phalaenopsis pulchra is parent of an hybrid known under the name of Phalaenopsis lueddemanniana arlington. |
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Phalaenopsis lueddemanniana
arlington
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History
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| Cultivated for the first time in Europe by Low in 1887, with specimens sent by Boxall | |||||||||
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