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Most people today, even those who are illiterate, recognize that Phalaenopsis is an orchid. Phalaenopsis has overtaken Cattleya as the most popular orchid in the market. Such beautiful orchids were admired by people living in the Philippines for centuries, and on the island of Ternate in the Moluccas only princesses were permitted to wear the precious flower (Osbeck, 1752). The first European to see, describe and illustrate the flower was Rumphius (1627–1702) who named it Angraecum album majus in his monumental work of the Amboinese flora, Herbarium Ambonese completed in 1701 and published posthumously in Amsterdam between 1741 and 1759 (Beekman 2011). Peter Osbeck (1723–1805) collected the plants from the East Indies and sent preserved material to Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) who described and named it as Epidendrum amabile in the first edition of Species Plantarum (1753). Osbeck reported that it grew on ‘branches of trees on the shore’. The flowers were long-lasting, and they filled his room ‘with the most agreeable smell’ (Alrich and Higgins 2014)

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Teoh, E.S. (2021). Phalaenopsis Bl.. In: Orchid Species from Himalaya and Southeast Asia Vol. 2 (G - P). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80428-2_33

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