| Phaius tancarvilleae var. pulcra photo Z |
| taxonomy | described by | (Banks ex L'Heritier de Brutelle) von Blume, Carl Ludwig |
| published in | Museum Botanicum 2 : 177 1856 | |
| var. pulcra | described by | (King & Pantling) Karthikeyan, Satavanan |
| published in | Florae Indicae Enumeratio : Monocotyledonae 163 1989 | |
| family | Orchidaceae | |
| subfamily | Epidendroideae | |
| tribe | Maxillarieae | |
| subtribe | Collabiinae | |
| genus | Phaius Lourierio 1790 | |
| chromosomes | 2n = 38, 44 | |
| 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 | origins | Malaysia (Sabah) |
| altitude | ||
| habitat | climate informations from Kundusang Kinabalu National Park, Sabah, Malaysia) | |
| Köppen climate classification : Af, humid tropical climate of the rainforest | ||
| (without a winter season, more and abundant rainfall) | ||
| the weather station data (temperatures are calculated for an altitude of 1000 m / 3300 ft) : | ||
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| photoperiod | in Kundusang this orchid blooms with a photoperiod, which varies during the year, from 12 h 24 m' to 11 h 36 m' | |
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life form |
geophyte | |
| brightness | partial shade | |
| inflorescence | length | 70 - 90 cm (28" - 36"), basal |
| nr flowers | 10 - 12 | |
| size | single flower 6 L 10 cm (2.4" L 4") - inflorescence 26 L 18 cm (10.4" L 7.2") | |
| duration | inflorescence ≈ 30 days | |
| time | to bloom from birth, ≈ 90 - 100 days | |
| CITES | appendix | II |
