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Phalaenopsis sumatrana
Korthals & Reichenbach f.

Hamburger Garten-Blumenzeitung, 16: 115 (1860), nom. cons.

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4. Hamburger Garten-Blumenzeitung, volume 16:

(1860), bottom of page 115.
5. Phalaenopsis sumatrana - Korthals original drawing,
Kew’s Lindley Collection.
6. Reichenbach Herbarium #22338
7. Reichenbach Herbarium #22346
at the Naturhistorische Museum, Vienna

Subgenus: Polychilos - Section: Fuscatae

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History: Rediscovered by Gersen, a collector
working for Teijsmann, who in 1859 collected
the species at Moeara Enim (along the river
Sungai Lematang), in the Indonesian province of
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Palembang. Teijsmann sent two different plants to
Pieter Willem Korthals
the Botanic Garden at the University of Leiden. Only
one specimen survived and flowered in 1860 at the botanical
garden of Leyde under the name of Phalaenopsis zebrina and than was published in 1861. Then in 1864, the plant was
introduced into England by Low & Company and published under a different name (in Botanical Magazine). The plant
flowered for the first time (England) in the collection of John Day who exhibited it at the Royal Horticultural Society at
South Kensington on May 30, 1865 and there received a First-class Certificate.
This plant served as the source illustration that William H. Fitch prepared for plate 5527 in Botanical Magazine. The
species was originally collected by Pieter Willem Korthals (1807-1892), a Dutch botanist, who was head of a scientific staff
commissioned to investigate the natural history of the Dutch possessions in the Malay Archipedlago. Korthals prepared a
sketch of a plant that was seen by Reichenbach in Leiden in 1856. But he was not allowed to make a copy of this illustration.
1. Phalaenopsis sumatrana - lips and column drawing, Phalaenopsis A Monograph, Eric Christenson, pg. 178 (2001).
2. Phalaenopsis sumatrana - Botanical Magazine, 91: t. 6627 (1865).
3. Phalaenopsis zebrina - Annales d’Horticulture et de Botanique, 4: pg. 145 (1861).
8. Phalaenopsis sumatrana - Lindenia, 2: t. 52 (1886).

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Phalaenopsis | Second Quarter | Volume 24 | 2014