Gastrodia holttumii Carr 1929
Tuber Inflorescence and Flowers Photos by © Peter O'Byrne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name Holttum's Gastrodia [English Botanist in Malaysia 1900's]
Flower Size
Found in penninsular Malaysia at elevations around 400 meters as a miniature [in flower] to medium [in fruit] sized, hot growing, mycoheterotrophic terrestrial orchid with constricted at intervals tubers giving rise in the spring to a 4" [10 cm] long, erect, 1 to 4 flowered inflorescence carrying drooping flowers that last a single day.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 19/20 1129 - 1264 Brieger 1988; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaen & Wood 1992 as a syn of G verrucosa
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