Species Information - Phaius tanjiewhoei

Phaius tanjiewhoei P.J. Cribb, J. Stone & P. O' Byrne in J. Stone, & P. Cribb, Lady Tankerville's Legacy 88, fig. 80-84, 86-87, Map 21

Type: C. Boden-Kloss s.n. Indonesia, Papua Prov., Mt Carstenz, Camp 6a, 17 Jan. 1913 (holo K)

Synonyms:

Terrestrial herb to 150 cm tall. Pseudobulbs small, ovoid, to 4 by 2 cm. Leaves 3, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, 55- 150 by 6- 13 .6 cm; petiole slender, to 15 cm long. Inflorescence erect to suberect, 40-70 cm or longer, laxly 7- 10-flowered; peduncle cylindrical, to 47 by 0.6-0.8 cm, with 2- 3 distant sterile acuminate scales; floral bracts oblanceolate, acuminate, to 0.45-0.5 cm long, deciduous. Flowers spreading, fleshy, c. 8 cm across. Pedicel and ovary 2.5-4 cm long. Median sepal oblong, suberect, to 4.7 by 0.65-1 cm; margins recurved; apex acute. Lateral sepals oblong-oblanceolate, spreading, to 5.4 by 0.75-1.1 cm; margins recurved; apex acute. Petals spreading, oblanceolate, 3.7-4.7 by 0.7-0.9 cm; apex subacute. Lip porrect, 3-lobed, 3.5-4.5 by 2.6- 3.0 cm; hypochile lateral lobes oblong-lyrate, in front rounded, 2.1 cm long, upcurved and enclosing the column; upper margins except the very base and front margins crisped, or only the frfont margin crisped; epichile oblong-obovate, with a narrower claw, truncate, shortly apiculate, c. 1 by 1.1 cm; spur tapering, conical, 4.5- 5 mm long, sparsely hairy; callus of two ridges from base merging into a single rugulose ridge on the midlobe. Column clavate, c. 1.7 cm long; anther papillose
(after Stone & Cribb, 2017)

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