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Phalaenopsis schilleriana Rchbf.f.
- Common Name:
- Family: Orchidaceae Juss.
- Country of Origin: Phillipines (Luzon & adjacent smaller islands)
- Habitat:
- Description: Leaves oblong, to 10 inches long, dark green mottled with silver or gray above, purple underneath; inflorescence a panicle to 3 feet long with 200 flowers of more; flowers to 3 inches across, rich rose-lilac, sepals obovate, petals rhomboid, lip 3-lobed, spotted with reddish-brown, with a yellow callus, lateral lobes oblong, midlobe elliptic, with 2 divergent horn-like appendages at apex.
Restrictions:- CITES Appendix II Listed Plant
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    Accession Data:- Accession # 199300309
- Source: Vicki Wanlass coll. Forti
- Accession Date: 12-31-1993
- Bench: 3219 - South Bench
- Qty: 1 confirmed on 05-12-2010
Classification:- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Liliopsida
- SubClass: monocots
- Order: Asparagales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Orchidaceae
- SubFamily: Epidendroideae
- Tribe: Vandeae
- SubTribe: Aeridinae
References:Hortus Third, LH Bailey Hortorium, 1976 Manual of Cultivated Orchid Species, Bechtel, Cribb & Launert
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