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cm wide. Semi-pendent inflorescences are green marbled with
purplish red and bear four to sixteen flowers. The flowers are
perfumed and fleshy, with petals and sepals mustard-yellow
marked with reddish brown. The lip is creamy yellow, with side
lobes marked with reddish brown. The apex of the central lobe
is dull red (Figure. 10) .
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Acknowledgements
I’d like to warmly thank Martin Gunther, Alain Brochart, and Hou Tse Liu for
the pictures they kindly authorized me to use here. I also want to thank Albert
Falcinelli and Michel Ancel (Alfa Orchidées) for their warm welcoming in their
greenhouses, in order to observe living material and to take photographs. I’d also
like to thank Pierre Authier, who first edited this article in order to publish it in the
French Orchid Society Bulletin. Finally, a special thanks to T. Yukawa for his kind
authorization to use P. natmataungensis.
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1 –
2 –
3 –
4 –
5 –
6 –
Phal. lowii. In cultivation (A. Brochart).
Phal. lowii f. alba. In cultivation (M. Gunther).
Phal. lowii f. coerulea. In cultivation (Hou Tse Liu).
P. braceana. In cultivation 06/2009 (M. Gunther).
P. braceana. In cultivation 07/2009 (M. Gunther).
P. taenialis. In cultivation 03/2009 (M. Gunther).
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7 – P. taenialis (Plate 266) in G. King and R. Pantling, The Orchids of
the Sikkim-Himalaya, Bengal Secretariat Press, 1898.
8 – P. finleyi. In cultivation 10/2007 (M. Gunther).
9 – P. stobartiana. In cultivation 05/2009 (M. Gunther).
10 – P. natmataungensis. In situ, 2010 (T. Yukawa).
Outside backcover – P. lowii (Volume 2, Plate 15) in R. Warner, Select
Orchidaceous Plants, L. Reeve & Co., 1865-1875.
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