Anoectochilus albo-lineatus photo C. Solimbergo |
taxonomy | described by | Parish, Samuel Bonsall & Reichenbach, Heinrich Gustav |
published in | Transaction of the Linnean Society of London, 2nd series : Botany 30 : 141 . 1874 | |
Family | Orchdaceae | |
Subfamily | Orchidoideae | |
Tribe | Cranichideae | |
Subtribe | Goodyerinae | |
Genus | Anoecto-chilus von Blume 1825 | |
metabolism | C3 pathway, stomata of the leaves are open during the day. | |
(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 | evergreen forests, in rich humus, in Burma, Thailand, Malaysia (Sabah, Mount Kinabalu) |
altitude | 1200 - 1700 m (4000 - 5600 ft) | |
habitat | climate informations from Kundasang (Sabah, Kinabalu National Park, Malaysia) | |
Köppen climate classification : Af, humid tropical climate of the rainforest | ||
the weather station data (temperatures are calculated for an altitude of 1500 m / 5000 ft) : | ||
photoperiod | in Kundasang this orchid bloom with a photoperiod, that varies during the year, from 12 h 24 m' to 11 h 36 m' | |
life form | geophyte | |
brightness | low | |
inflorescence | lenght | 15 cm (6") |
flores | 3 | |
size | single flower 2 L 2 cm (0.8 L 0.8") - inflorescence 4 L 5 cm (1.6 L 2") | |
duration | inflorescence ≈ 40 days | |
time | to bloom from birth ≈ 120 days | |
CITES | appendix | II |