Anoectochilus subregularis (Rchb.f.) Ormerod 1996 TYPE Drawing by © Nicolas Halle'

Common Name The Almost Regular Anoectochilus [refers to its not fitting in to any genus]

Flower Size

Found in New Caledonia, Santa Cruz Islands and Vanuatu in rainforests at elevations around 400 to 700 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with a rerent stem carrying ovate, shortly acute, dark green with some white veinlets, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on an erect, 3.2 to 5.6" [8 to 14 cm] long, finely pubescent, few flowered inflorescence carrying pubescent flowers and ovaries.

Synonyms Epipactis subregularis (Rchb.f.) A.A.Eaton 1908; Eucosia subregularis (Rchb.f.) Schltr. 1911; *Georchis subregularis Rchb.f. 1876; Goodyera subregularis (Rchb.f.) Schltr. 1905; Orchiodes subregulare (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flore de la Nouvelle-Caledonie et Dependences Vol 8 Orchidaceae Halle 1977 as Goodyera subregularis drawing fide;

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