| not yet in bloom |
| Arachnis calcarata subsp longisepala |
| taxonomy | described by | Holttum, Richard Eric |
| published in | Sarawak Museum Journal 5 : 172 1949 | |
| subsp longisepala | described by | Wood, Jeffrey James |
| published in | Orchid Review 89 (1050) : 113 1981 | |
| Family | Orchidaceae | |
| Subfamily | Epidendroideae | |
| Tribe | Vandeae | |
| Subtribe | Aeridinae | |
| Genus | Arachnis Blume 1825 | |
| metabolism | CAM pathway, stomata of the leaves are open at night. | |
| (K.Silvera, L.S. Santiago, J.C. Cushman, K. Winter - International Symposium on Plant Biology, August 2013) | ||
| it is useful give the soluble mineal nutriens, on the roots. | ||
| native of | origin | forests in Malaysia on the trunks of trees (Borneo, Kinabalu, Lahad, Datu) |
| altitude | ≈ 610 m (1800 - 2013ft) | |
| habitat | climate informations from Tambunan (Borneo, Sabah, Malaysia) | |
| Köppen climate classification : Af, humid tropical climate of the rainforest | ||
| (no winter season, more abundant rainfall) | ||
| the weather station data (temperatures are calculated for an altitude of 600 m / 1980 ft) : | ||
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| photoperiod | in Tambunan this orchid bloom with a photoperiod, that varies during the year, from 12 h 23 m' to 11 h 37 m' | |
| life form | epiphyte | |
| brightness | partial shade | |
| inflorescence | length | |
| nr flowers | ||
| size | ||
| duration | ||
| time | to bloom from birth, ~ days | |
| CITES | appendix | II |
