Grosourdya ciliata (Ridl.) Kocyan & Schuit. 2014

Photo by © Ong Poh Teck

Drawing

Drawing by © Seidenfaden

Common Name The Ciliate Grosourdya

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Thailand, penninsular Malaysia and Sabah Borneo at elevations of 200 to 500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with short stems enveloped completely by imbricating leaf bearing sheaths carrying 5 linear, unequally bilobed apically, acute leaves gradually narrowing below into the leaf bearing sheaths, that blooms in the summer and winter on a basal, very thin, slender, erect, fine prickly, to 1.4" [3.5 cm] long, thickened rachis, few flowered inflorescence with short, broad, spreading floral bracts.

Synonyms Biermannia ciliata (Ridl.) Garay 1972; *Dendrocolla ciliata Ridl. 1905; ; Pteroceras ciliatum (Ridl.) Holttum 1960; Sarcochilus ciliatus (Ridl.) J.J.Sm. 1926; Thrixspermum blepharolobum Schltr. 1911;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957 as Biermannia ciliata ; The Orchids Of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitnand 1959 drawing as Thrixspermum sp Cumb pg 526 fig 387 drawing hmm; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 corrections as Pteroceras ciliatum; Botanisk Tidsskrift bd 68 hft 1 Contributions to the Orchid Flora of Thailand V Seidedenfaden 1973 as Biermannia ciliata drawing fide; Opera Botanica #95 Seidenfaden as Biermanniania ciliata Drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 19/20 1129 - 1264 Brieger 1988 as Biermannia ciliata drawing good; Opera Botanica #95 Seidenfaden 1988 as Biermannia ciliata drawing fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 as Biermannia ciliata drawing good; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 as Biermannia ciliata photo fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 17 O'Byrne 2016 photo fide;

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