2002, December 19. Native Philippine Orchids
Litho Offset. Amstar Company, Inc., Perf. 14
Se-tenant Blocks of 4, Miniature Sheets of 16; Souvenir Sheets of One
Type I
Type
II
Se-tenant Blocks of Four (50,000)
5p Nervilia Plicata
5p Dendrobium Victoria- Reginae
5p Geodorum Densiflorum
5p Luisia Teretifolia
Type II has larger "2002" imprint (Second Printing issued July 31, 2003)
Miniature Sheets of Sixteen (3,125)
Souvenir Sheets of One (12,500)
22p Grammatophyllum Scriptum
Design Coordinator: Antonio D.A. Claro
Layout Artist: Alfonso V. Divina
Designs: Photographs of various orchids taken from the book Native Orchids of the Philippines by Hans H. Fessel Peter Balzer
First Day Covers: Manila
Native Orchids of the Philippines
Nervilia Plicata. About 65 species of nervilia are known. These terrestrial orchids have solitary, stalked, heart-shaped leaves, which are sometimes variegated that arise from subterranean round tubers. The inflorescence bears a few relatively large complex yellowish flowers with purple or reddish markings, especially on the lips. Usually flowers and leaves are produced at different seasons of the year. No hybrids are known.
Dendrobium Victoria- Reginae. This orchid has pendent bulbs that are up to 50cm long, often branched near the base; the nodes are slightly swollen. The leaves are up to 8cm long and 2cm wide. The short inflorescence appears on older stems and bear 3 to 12 flowers. The flowers reach 30mm in diameter. The simple lip has at its center five dark violet stripes. The pollinarium consists of two pairs of naked pollinia. As D. Papilio, it is an inhabitant of the moist, cool, mossy forest of high altitudes. Its bluish color clearly separates it from all other Dendrobium species in the country.
Geodorum Densiflorum. This orchid specie comes from a genus of about 10 species of rarely cultivated but unusually attractive terrestrial orchids. Pseudobulbs, almost round, somewhat compressed, are underground and from which rise a few broad stalked, folded leaves and erect elongate inflorescence. Flowers are medium-sized, not widely opening which are carried sharply pendulous, that do not last long, and they are waxy, fragrant, and colored. No hybrids are known.
Nervilia Plicata. About 65 species of nervilia are known. These terrestrial orchids have solitary, stalked, heart-shaped leaves, which are sometimes variegated that arise from subterranean round tubers. The inflorescence bears a few relatively large complex yellowish flowers with purple or reddish markings, especially on the lips. Usually flowers and leaves are produced at different seasons of the year. No hybrids are known.
Grammatophyllum Scriptum. About 8 species in the genus, mostly epiphytic, are found. All Grammatophyllums are expceptionally spectacular plants. They have yellowish green leaves, leathery, waxy, and the broad inflorescence is erect to strongly arching or pendulous due to the weight of flowers. Over 100 flowers in a stem that are heavy-textured and waxy open over some weeks with variable colors from greenish-yellow with irregular dark brown blotches on inner surface. Flowers appear mostly in the Summer.
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