Description: SUBGENUS Polychilos SECTION Zebrinae.mw-parser-output.smallcaps{font-variant:small-caps}Pfitzer (1889) Distribution: Andaman and Nicobar Is., NW. Sumatera (41 AND NCB 42 SUM) Lifeform: Epiphyte Homotypic synonyms Phalaenopsis speciosa var. tetraspis (Rchb.f.) H.R.Sweet, Amer. Orchid Soc. Bull. 37: 1092 (1968) Heterotypic synonyms Phalaenopsis speciosa Rchb.f., Gard. Chron., n.s., 15: 562 (1881) Phalaenopsis speciosa var. christiana E.S.Berk., Gard. Chron., n.s., 18: 745 (1882) Phalaenopsis speciosa var. imperatrix E.S.Berk., Gard. Chron., n.s., 18: 745 (1882) Phalaenopsis speciosa var. maculata Gower, Garden (London, 1871-1927) 37: 582 (1890) Phalaenopsis speciosa subvar. christiana (E.S.Berk.) A.H.Kent in H.J.Veitch, Man. Orchid. Pl. 7: 39 (1891) Phalaenopsis speciosa subvar. imperatrix (E.S.Berk.) A.H.Kent in H.J.Veitch, Man. Orchid. Pl. 7: 38 (1891) Phalaenopsis barrii King ex Hook.f., Cent. Orchid. Pl.: 38 (1895) Phalaenopsis sumatrana var. alba G.Wilson, Orchid World 5: 146 (1915) Polychilos speciosa (Rchb.f.) Shim, Malayan Nat. J. 36: 26 (1982) Phalaenopsis tetraspis f. christiana (E.S.Berk.) O.Gruss & W.E.Higgins, Phalaenopsis J. 26(4): 19 (2016) Phalaenopsis tetraspis f. imperatrix (E.S.Berk.) O.Gruss & W.E.Higgins, Phalaenopsis J. 26(4): 19 (2016) Phalaenopsis tetraspis f. livida O.Gruss & S.Tönne, Die Orchidee (Hamburg) 3(5)E: 37 (2017). Date: 4 August 2019, 23:54. Source:
[Sumatra, Indonesia] Phalaenopsis tetraspis Rchb.f., Xenia Orchid. 2: 146 (1870). Author:
sunoochi from Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.