not yet in bloom |
Arachnis calcarata subsp longisepala |
taxonomy | described by | Holttum, Richard Eric |
published in | Sarawak Museum Journal 5 : 172 1949 | |
subsp longisepala | described by | Wood, Jeffrey James |
published in | Orchid Review 89 (1050) : 113 1981 | |
Family | Orchidaceae | |
Subfamily | Epidendroideae | |
Tribe | Vandeae | |
Subtribe | Aeridinae | |
Genus | Arachnis Blume 1825 | |
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 | origin | forests in Malaysia on the trunks of trees (Borneo, Kinabalu, Lahad, Datu) |
altitude | ≈ 610 m (1800 - 2013ft) | |
habitat | climate informations from Tambunan (Borneo, Sabah, Malaysia) | |
Köppen climate classification : Af, humid tropical climate of the rainforest | ||
(no winter season, more abundant rainfall) | ||
the weather station data (temperatures are calculated for an altitude of 600 m / 1980 ft) : | ||
photoperiod | in Tambunan this orchid bloom with a photoperiod, that varies during the year, from 12 h 23 m' to 11 h 37 m' | |
life form | epiphyte | |
brightness | partial shade | |
inflorescence | length | |
nr flowers | ||
size | ||
duration | ||
time | to bloom from birth, ~ days | |
CITES | appendix | II |