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Orchid Species: Phalaenopsis formosana

Kew currently accepted name is Phalaenopsis amabilis

Phalaenopsis formosana is an orchid species identified by Miwa in 1941. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Phalaenopsis amabilis.
Genus
Phalaenopsis (Phal.)
Grex
formosana
Parents
Species
Author
Miwa
Year
1941
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ORIGIN: Native of northern Australia, Indonesia, Papua & New Guinea, the Philippines and New Britain occurring at elevations up to 600 meters in rainforests on trunks and branches overhanging rivers, swamps and streams.

DESCRIPTION: This is a medium sized, hot to warm growing, robust, epiphytic species with a short, pendulous, robust stem enveloped by imbricating leaf bases and carrying 3 to 5 fleshy or coriaceous, arcuate, pendant, ovate-elliptic, obovate to oblong-oblanceolate, obtuse to subacute, shiny green leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on a slender, to 3' [90 cm] long, racemose or paniculate, laxly few to many flowered inflorescence that has small scarious, triangular bracts and carrying color and size variable, fragrant, showy, long-lasting flowers.

FLOWER SIZE: To 4 inches [10 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Phalaenopsis Phal amabilis 1825 (L.) Blume
Add+ Phalaenopsis Phal ambigua 1862 Rchb.f.
Add+ Phalaenopsis Phal babuyana 1941 Miwa
Add+ Phalaenopsis Phal erubescens 1876 Burb.
Add+ Phalaenopsis Phal formosa [Baker]
Add+ Synadena Synadena amabilis 1838 (L.) Raf.
Add+ Cymbidium Cym amabile 1832 (L.) Roxb.
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Phal. amabilis 'Mahvelous' (2 awards from 2009 to 2012) Phal. amabilis 'Annette' (2 awards in 2007) Phal. amabilis 'Magnifico' (2 awards in 2004) Phal. amabilis 'T. H.' (2 awards from 1996 to 2000) Phal. amabilis 'Sunnydale' (2 awards in 1996) Phal. amabilis 'Cheng-Fan' (2 awards from 1993 to 1994) Phal. amabilis 'Queenslander' (2 awards in 1992) Phal. amabilis 'Heather' (2 awards from 1986 to 1990) Phal. amabilis 'Rogan's White Gold' (2019) Phal. amabilis 'Castle Creek' (2014) Phal. amabilis h.f. aphrodite 'Schnee' (2011) Phal. amabilis 'Jayne Garrison' (2010) Phal. amabilis 'KS0752#1' (2010) Phal. amabilis 'UT Ama' (2009) Phal. amabilis 'Momilani' (2009) Phal. amabilis 'Variegated' (2008) Phal. amabilis 'Warrigal' (2008) Phal. amabilis 'Leaf With Stripe' (2007) Phal. amabilis 'Crystelle' (2006) Phal. amabilis 'Cymbeline-Sophia' (2005)
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