Gastrochilus acutifolius (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891 SECTION Gastrochilus

Lip Detail Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt

ASS EHM NEP 41 VIE

Common Name The Pointed-Leaf Gastrochilus

Found in Assam India, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Myanamar and Vietnam in open primary, mossy, semideciduous, broad-leafed, mixed and coniferous forests at elevations of 700 to 900 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing, epiphytic species with elongate, slender stems enveloped basally by leaf bases and carrying distichous, linear-oblong, acute or acuminate, leathery leaves that blooms in the fall with a densly several [8] flowered, 2" [5 cm] long, corymbose inflorescence that has fragrant flowers and is a strap leafed vandanaceous plant that needs even watering and bright light year round.

Synonyms Aerides umbellatum Wall. 1824; Gastrochilus dentatus (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Gastrochilus denticulatus (Paxton) Kuntze 1891; *Saccolabium acutifolium Lindl. 1833; Saccolabium dentatum Rchb.f. 1864; Saccolabium denticulatum Paxt. 1840

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/95 as Saccolabium acutifolium; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 8 1985 photo; Lindleyana Vol 15 No 4 2000; Beautiful Orchids of Nepal Rajbhandari & Bhattarai 2001; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002

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