| Spathoglottis affinis photo C. Solimbergo |
| taxonomy | described by | de Vriese, Willem Hendrik |
| published in | Illustr. Orch. t . 15 1854 | |
| family | Orchidaceae | |
| subfamily | Epidendroideae | |
| tribe | Collabieae | |
| subtribe | ||
| genus | Spatoglottis Blume 1825 | |
| chromosomes | 2n = 40 | |
| metabolism |
CAM pathway, stomata of the leaves are open at night. |
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| (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 | deciduous or semi-deciduous forests in Burma, Laos, Thailand (Ta Ruang, Chantaburi), Cambodia, |
| Viet Nam, China, Malaysia (Malaya, Borneo), Indonesia (Java) | ||
| altitude | 100 - 1000 m (330 - 3300 ft) | |
| habitat | climate informations from Kuningan (West Java, Indonesia) | |
| Köppen climate classification : Am, tropical monsoon climate (a dry season and a wet season very rainy) | ||
| the weather station data (temperatures are calculated for an altitude of 550 m / 1815 ft) : | ||
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| photoperiod | in Kuningan this orchid bloom with a photoperiod, that varies during the year, from 12 h 28 m' to 11 h 32 m' | |
| life form | geophyte | |
| brightness | partial shade | |
| inflorescence | length | 50 - 55 cm (20" - 22"), basal |
| nr flowers | 16 - 18 | |
| size | single flower 4 L 4 cm (1.6" L 1.6") - inflorescence 20 L 7 cm (8" L 2.8") | |
| duration | inflorescence ≈ 20 days | |
| time | to bloom from birth, ≈ 30 - 40 days | |
| CITES | appendix | II |
