Gastrodia grandilabris Carr 1935

Photo by © Anthony Lamb

Plant and flowers in situ Borneo

Photo courtesy of © N. Prieditis, André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen © and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website

Part shade Warm Cool

Common Name The Large Lipped Gastrodia

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Sabah Borneo in hill and lower montane forests at elevations of 700 to 1600 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing, leafless mycoheterotrophic herb with an erect, bractless stem carrying several flowers towards the apex.

Synonyms Leptogastrodia grandilabris (Carr) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2019

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993 photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 photo ok; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing ok

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