be as rare in the wild as it is in cultivation and mostly no information is available for it.
Environmental conditions in the wild tend to make me think that the cultural requirements must be similar to other species of this section. This species is the only one that
is not illustrated in this series.
Note: Subgenus Phalaenopsis Section Esmeralda Rchb. f. will be featured in the our
next issue.
Literature Cited
Christenson, E.A., 2001. Phalaenopsis: A monograph. 396 p. Timber Press.
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Acknowledgements
I warmly thank Martin Gunther, Alain Brochart, and B. Laville for the pictures they kindly authorized me
to use here. I also thank Albert Falcinelli and Michel Ancel (Alfa Orchidées) for their warm welcoming into
their greenhouses, in order to observe living material and to make 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.
Captions
1 – P. amabilis In cultivation (Alfa Orchidées). 08/ 2010 (D. Lafarge).; 2 – P. amabilis in J. Bateman, A Second
Century of Orchidaceous Plants, L. Reeve & Co., 5, 1867.; 3 – P. aphrodite in cultivation. 01/ 2007
(A. Brochart).; 4 – P. sanderiana in cultivation. 07/ 2010 (D. Lafarge).; 5 – P. sanderiana in A. Cogniaux &
A. Goossens, Dictionnaire Iconographique des Orchidées, F. Havermans, 1896.; 6 - P. schilleriana in cultivation.
01/ 2010 (A. Brochart).; 7 – P. stuartiana in cultivation. 02/ 2010 (D. Lafarge).; 8 – P. stuartiana f. nobilis in
cultivation. 03/ 2009 (M. Gunther).; 9 – P. chibae in cultivation. 05/ 2003 (A. Brochart).; 10 – P. deliciosa in
cultivation. 10/ 2009 (B. Laville).; 11 – P. deliciosa ssp. hookeriana in cultivation (Alfa Orchidées). 08/ 2010
(D. Lafarge).; 12 – P. deliciosa f. alba in cultivation (Orchids & More). 07/ 2010 (M. Gunther).
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