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Orchid Species: Phalaenopsis modesta
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Phalaenopsis modesta is an orchid species identified by J.J.Sm. in 1906.
ORIGIN: Found in Borneo in lower stature hill and lower montane forests low down or on the base and roots of trees near streams at elevations around 50 to 900 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a short stem enveloped completely by several leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying a few, disitichous, fleshy, obovate to obovate-lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the subpetiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring and in the fall on a slender, arching to pendant, 5 to 6 [12.5 to 15 cm] long, racemose or occasionally sparsely branched, few to many flowered inflorescence that is shorter than the leaf with distichous, ovate-lanceolate, cucullate floral bracts and carry a few, somewhat delicate, strongly fragrant flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 to 1 1/2
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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