| Design: Photographs
were taken from the book "Native Philippine Orchids" by Hans H. Fessel
and Peter Balzer. Paciencia P. Milan, Program Director, VISCA-GTZ
Applied Tropical Ecology Program and President, LSU.
Dendrobium uniflorum (P6.00)
The popularly known "Popcorn
Orchid", has erect to spreading, cylindrical stems that are up to 40 cm.
long. It bear many leaves which measures about 3.5 cm. long and 1 cm. wide.
The solitary flowers appear on the nodes of the stems. Found all over the
Philippines.
Epigeneium lyonii (P17.00)
The pseudobulbs of Epigeneium
lyonii are 5 to 7 cm. long and 2.5 to 4 cm. wide, four-angled, bifoliate.
The feathery leaves are oblong, 17 to 25 cm. long, and 3.5 to 5.5 cm. wide.
The apex is unequally bilobed. The flower stalk is very long, arching and
longer than the leaves. The flowers are large, white and purplish red.
It is endemic in Luzon and Samar, found in Bataan, Kalinga-Apayao, Laguna
and Rizal.
Thrixspermum subulatum
(P21.00)
It has long and pendent
shoots, often with side shoots. The leaves are thick, fleshy, shiny and
leathery. At the short inflorescences, some flowers appear within a few
weeks on many nodes. The flowers do not open completely. The three-lobed
lip has a sac-like spur; the large pointed lateral lobes are erect or envelope
the column. Found in Bontoc and llocos Norte. |
