Hi all,
It is already a while ago that I made a short tour through South East Asia: I climbed Mt Victoria at Palawan Island at the Philippines and Mt. Tambuyukon and Mt. Trus Madi in the Malaysian part of Borneo.
Although orchids were not my prime target at this trip, I photographed several interesting orchids.
Down here the first part: Mt Victoria, Palawan.
The first orchid we found is probably new to science and grew at the foothills of Mt Victoria. I forgot to which genus this pretty one belongs.
In the lowland rainforest I spotted this nice Spathoglottis orchid. Maybe a hybrid between S. aurea and S. kimbaliana?
Higher up the mountain we found some Stigmatodactylus orchids, previously unknown to the Philippines (the official description is not ready yet).
Later on we found also some with red flowers but the colour was somewhat variable. I am not sure whether these are all colourmorphs form one species or that the red and the white ones belong to different species (especially the last one is unfortunately somewhat out of focus)
To be continued...
South East Asia 2012 part I
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