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Orchid Species: Phalaenopsis lowii
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Phalaenopsis lowii is an orchid species identified by Rchb.f. in 1862.
ORIGIN: A hot to to warm growing, miniature epiphyte or sometimes lithophyte with deciduous leaves from Myanmar, Thailand and Borneo found in conjunction with limestone rocks at elevations around sea-level to 800 meters near rivers.
DESCRIPTION: A hot to to warm growing, miniature epiphyte or sometimes lithophyte with deciduous leaves from Myanmar, Thailand and Borneo found in conjunction with limestone rocks at elevations around sea-level to 800 meters near rivers with an erect or ascending stem enveloped by imbricating leaf bases carrying elliptic, obovate or oblong-elliptic, fleshy, acute or obtuse leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on a lateral, arcuate to pendant, 10 to 15 [25 to 37.5 cm] long, racemose or rarely paniculate, laxly many flowered inflorescence with small triangular bracts and fragrant, fleshy, long-lived flowers that have an extremely long, beak-like rostellum.
FLOWER SIZE: About 2 inches [5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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