The New Refugium Botanicum. Phalaenopsis mariae

Abstract

Phalaenopsis mariae Burb. ex Warn. & B.S.Wms., Orchid Album 2: t. 80, sub t. 87. 1883. Polychilos mariae (Burb. ex Warn. & B.S.Wms.) Shim, Malayan Nat. Journ. 36: 25. 1982. TYPE: The Philippines. Sulu Island [actually Jolo], Bunt-Dohan, 600 m, F. W. Burbidge s. n. (holotype, W). A large, monopodial, few-leaved, arcuate to pendent epiphytic herb to about 30 (–40) cm tall. Roots numerous, fleshy, flexuous, glabrous, with green apices, 5–6 mm in diameter. Stem short to very short, completely enclosed by the imbricating leaf sheaths. Leaves 4–7, distichous, deflexed to arching-pendent, thick-coriaceous to fleshy, light green, oblong-ligulate to oblong-obovate, rarely oblong-elliptic, acute or obtuse, sometimes slightly undulate, to 30 (–40) × 7 (–10) cm.