Galeola lindleyana (Hook.f. & Thomson) Rchb.f. 1865
Inflorescence Photos by © Ming-I Weng and courtesy of Terrestrial Orchid Gallery
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Common Name Lindley's Galeola [English Botanist 1800's]
Flower Size 1.5" [3.5 cm]
Found in Taiwan, China, Sumatra, the eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Bhutan, Assam and the western Himalayas in mossy evergreen forests at elevations of 1500 to 3600 meters as a giant sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial witha reddish, scurly stem carrrying many short, acute sheaths in the lower half and basically naked with no leaves that blooms on an erect, paniculate, each branch pendant, laxly few flowered inflorescence with sessile, ovate, withering as the flowers develop floral bracts.
Synonyms Cyrtosia lindleyana Hook.f. & Thomson 1855; Erythrorchis lindleyana (Hook.f. & Thomson) Rchb.f.1857
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 9 1958 drawing; AOS Bulletin Vol 50 No 10 1981 photo; The Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002;
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