not yet in bloom
| Phalaenopsis gigantea |
| taxonomy | described by | Smith, Johannes Jacobus |
| published in | Bulletin de Dèpartment de l'Agriculture aux Indes Nèerlandaises 22 : 45 1909 | |
| family | Orchidaceae | |
| subfamily | Epidendroideae | |
| tribe | Vandeae | |
| subtribe | Aeridinae | |
| genus | Phalaenopsis Blume 1825 | |
| chromosomes | 2n = 38 | |
| 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 | primary forests of Malaysia (Sabah, Borneo, Mt. Merutai, Mt. Tiger, Sarawak, Kalimantan), |
| Singapore, Indonesia (Java) - now rare or extinct in the wild | ||
| altitude | 0 - 800 m (0 - 2640 ft) | |
| habitat | climate informations from Tenom (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 400 m / 1320 ft) : | ||
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| photoperiod | in Tenom this orchid blooms with a photoperiod, which varies during the year, from 12 h 20 m', to 11 h 40 m' | |
| life form | epiphyte | |
| brightness | low | |
| inflorescence | length | |
| nr flowers | ||
| size | ||
| duration | ||
| time | to bloom from birth, ≈ days | |
| CITES | appendix | II |
