Phalaenopsis javanica
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| Phalaenopsis javanica | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Orchidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Epidendroideae |
| Genus: | Phalaenopsis |
| Species: | P. javanica |
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| Phalaenopsis javanica J.J.Sm. | |
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Phalaenopsis javanica is a species of orchid native to Java and Sumatra.[1] The specific epithet javanica refers to the Indonesian island Java.
These epiphytic plants have numerous, shiny, waxy elliptic-obovate, distichously arranged leaves up to 22 cm in length and 10 cm in width. Suberect racemes or panicles up to 25 cm long arise from the leaf axils. They produce 3 cm wide flowers with striped colouration on petals and sepals. The flowers with a cream white to yellowish ground colour are fleshy and do not open widely. Fleshy trichomes arise from the apex of the labellum.
In hybridisation, the colour pattern is inherited at the diploid level. Despite the colouration, it has not been widely used in hybridisation, as the flowers are strongly cupped and have other underireable traits, which are expressed in offspring.[2] Despite these drawbacks, 120 hybrids have been registered with the International Orchid Register of the Royal Horticultural Society.[3]
The colouration is variable. White forms of this species are categorized as Phalaenopsis javanica f. alba O.Gruss & Roellke ex Christenson. This colour morph is however more yellow, rather than pure white and the forma alba might be misleading. True white colouration has not been observed.