Object Details
- Description
- This is a clone of the type species for the genus.
- Bloom Time (Northern Hemisphere)
- October to June; peaks from February to April
- Ethnobotanical Uses
- Pseudobulbs said to be used to strengthen twine for fishing nets.
- Medicinal / Pharmaceutical
- Pseudobulbs used to make a poultice to treat pain due to abscesses in west Java. In southern highlands of Papua, women eat the smoked flowers with food to aid in conception.
- Provenance
- From a cultivated plant not of known wild origin
- Accession Number
- 2018-0493A
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Life Form
- Terrestrial
- Bloom Characteristics
- Inflorescence is 24-48" long with 14 brown flowers per an inflorescence and a pink lip. Flowers are 4-5" across.
- Fragrance
- Fragrant
- Range
- Trop to Subtrop Asia, to S Pacific
- Habitat
- Open grassy fields, moist deciduous forests, swampy evergreen areas; 0-1300m
- See more items in
- Smithsonian Gardens Orchid Collection
- Common Name
- Emma Tankerville's Phaius clone
- Nun's Orchid clone
- Group
- [vascular plants]
- Class
- Equisetopsida
- Subclass
- Magnoliidae
- Superorder
- Lilianae
- Order
- Asparagales
- Family
- Orchidaceae
- Subfamily
- Epidendroideae
- Genus
- Phaius
- Species
- tankervilleae
- Smithsonian Gardens
- Topic
- Orchids
- Living Collections
- Record ID
- ofeo-sg_2018-0493A
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ax76b68a7af-c892-4909-8a00-6c4c77015685
