Phalaenopsis difformis
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Phalaenopsis difformis
Found in the Assam India, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, western Himalayas, Myanmar, Thailand, Malayasia, Laos, central and southern China, Vietnam, Borneo and Sumatra in montane forests and humid, mossy, mixed and coniferous forests on mossy branches of old gnarled trees from 300 to 2100 meters in elevation as a small sized, hot to cool growing epiphytic monopodial orchid with a short stem carrying 5, obliquely lanceolate to oblong, acuminate, fleshy leaves that blooms in the spring and early summer and again in the winter on an axillary, terete, arching to pendulous, basally 1 to 2 branching, to 1 1/2′ [to 45 cm] long, successively many flowered inflorescence that is as long or longer than the leaves.
Synonyms Aerides difforme Wall ex Lindley 1833; Aerides hystrix Lindley 1833; Ornithochilus delavayi Finet 1896; Ornithochilus difformis [Wall ex Lindley]Schlechter 1919; Ornithochilus difformis var. kinabaluensis J.J.Wood, A.L.Lamb & Shim 1994; Ornithochilus eublepharum Hanc 1884; Ornithochilus fuscus Wallis ex Lindl. 1833; Ornithochilus kinabaluensis (J.J.Wood, A.L.Lamb & Shim) R.Rice & A.L.Lamb 2017; Phalaenopsis difformis var. kinabaluensis (J.J.Wood, A.L.Lamb & Shim) Kocyan & Schuit. 2014; Sarcochilus difformis [Lindley] Tang & Wang 1951; Trichoglottis diformis [Lindley] Ban & Huyen 1984; Vanda doritoides Guillaumin 1930