Selected Species from NMQOC
Species Appreciation Group
15th
June 2019
Photos courtesy of Jon Cara, Graham Corbin
Orchid commentary courtesy of Nev Bone
Bulbophyllum careyanum
var. ochracea
epiphyte
200 to 2100m
Eastern Himalayas, Assam,
Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim,
Myanmar, Thailand, and
Vietnam.
Grows in evergreen lowland
forests as a small sized, warm to
cool growing species that flowers
in the winter and spring on a
basal, stout, brown inflorescences
23 cm long. The flowers are foul
smelling.
Best grown on tree fern or cork,
kept wet although allowed to dry
out and hot to cool conditions
with slight shade.
Catasetum expansum
Bulbophyllum longissimum
epiphyte sometimes as a lithophyte
Lowlands in Thailand
Grows on rocky outcrops, trunks & the lower branches of rain
forest trees in moderate to heavy shaded locations.
It requires warm moist conditions with high humidity.
Cattleya jenmanii
epiphyte
300 to 600m
Guyana and
Venezuela.
Grows as a small
sized, hot to warm
growing, unifoliate
species in deep
forests along rivers
with a wet season in
the summer and
autumn and a dry
season in the winter
and spring that
flowers in the
summer and autumn
on a short to 10 cm terminal, with few 3 to 7 flowered inflorescence arising on a mature
pseudobulb with a basal spathe.
Coelogyne septemcostata
Dendrobium antennatum
Dendrobium insigne
'Zaraha' CBM ANOS
Dendrochilum saccolabium
Epiphyte
above 1200m
Philippines, located in a number of
the provinces.
Growing in forests on trunks &
main branches in filtered light as a
miniature to small sized, cool
growing species. The single leafed
pseudobulbs with a leathery, flat,
corrugated leaf and flowers in the
autumn and winter on an semi-
arching, densely up to 40 flowered
inflorescence arising with a new
growth and has flowers that do not
open fully because of the spotted
bracts semi-enveloping them.
Gastrochilus obliquus
epiphyte
800 to 1400m
Eastern Himalayas, Bhutan,
Sikkim, Myanmar, northern
Thailand, southern China,
northern Laos and Vietnam.
Grows in dense forests as a
miniature sized, warm to cool
growing orchid with a very
short stem carrying persistent,
bright green leaves that flowers
in the autumn and winter on
drooping racemose, with 8
flowered inflorescence
carrying fragrant, long-lived
flowers.
Laelia anceps f. disciplinata x anceps 'suoflair' Laelia anceps
Liparis viridiflora
epiphyte, lithophyte or terrestrial
300 to 2500m
Assam, Bangladesh, eastern
Himalayas, Nepal, lower India,
Sri Lanka, Myanamar, Malaysia,
Thailand, Cambodia, Laos,
Vietnam, China, Borneo, Java,
the Philippines, Sulawesi,
Sumatra, New Guinea and
Taiwan.
Grows hot to warm in broadleaf,
evergreen, lowland forests on
highly eroded, stratified
limestone cliffs and bluffs. It
blooms in the fall on an 25 cm
long, slender, densely many
flowered, racemose
inflorescence with small bracts
and very small, crowded
flowers.
Mediocalcar decoratum
epiphyte
900m to 2500m
Papua and New Guinea and West Irian.
Grows as a mini-miniature, mat-forming,
cool to cold growing epiphytic species in
transitional montane forests in moist and
shady locations. It blooms on a new
pseudobulb growth in the autumn, winter
and spring.
Neolehmannia porpax
Oncidium sotoanum
Phalaenopsis cornu-cervi
epiphyte or lithophyte
200 to 1000 m
India, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam,
Nicobar Islands, Malaysia, Java, Borneo,
Sumatra, and the Philippines.
Grows as a small sized, hot to warm growing
species found in lowland locations on stunted
vegetation in fairly exposed areas or in dense
riverine or lowland forests with heavy dews
high up in the canopy.
This species needs a distinct dry spell in
winter. It blooms on 10 to 40 cm long,
branched and flattened, racemose. The
flowers are fragrant, long-lasting, fleshy and
it can bloom at any time of year but
especially from spring till autumn. It will
flower on the inflorescence so long as it is
green.
This species can be mounted or potted with
coarse free draining medium with semi-
shade, high humidity, and hot to cool
temperatures.
Phalaenopsis pallens
Pleurothallis stricta
epiphyte
1800 to 2500m
Colombia and Ecuador.
Grows in cloud forests as a miniature, cool to
cold growing species that flowers summer
and winter on an erect, loose, distichous, few
to several flowered, 5 to 16 cm long,
racemose inflorescence arising from a spathe
and having thin, tubular floral bracts.
Polystachya galeata
epiphyte
400 to 1000m
Cameroon, Congo, Gabon,
Ghana, Guinea, Ivory
Coast, Liberia, Nigeria,
Sierra Leone, Zaire and
Angola.
Grows in lowland and
submontane evergreen
forests in full to dappled
sun as a medium sized, hot
to warm growing species
forming small clumps. The
flowers are strongly
scented flower in the
autumn.