Side View of Flower

Photos by © von Phil Mitgleid Lonis Orchideenforum Website

Drawing

Drawing by Gunnar Seidenfaden

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Common Name The Intermediate Gastrochilus - In China Xi Jing Pen Ju Lan

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in southeastern Sichuan province of China, Assam, Thailand, and Vietnam in forests on tree trunks at elevations around 1500 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with slightly flattened, slender, branched stems carrying distichous, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate leaves that blooms in the later summer and fall on a subumbellate, short to .4" [1 cm], often 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence with ovate, acute floral bracts.

CAUTION!!! The often erroneously cited species for either Sikkim or Bhutan as G intermedius is actually G linearifolius, G intermedius has not been recorded for the eastern Himalayas, Sikkim or Bhutan.

Synonyms Saccolabium calceolare Paxton 1839; *Saccolabium intermedium Griff. ex Lindl. 1859

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1878 as Saccolabium intermedium; Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1878 as Saccolabium bigibbum; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 as Saccolabium intermedium drawing not = G linearifolius; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 1 1963; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 drawing not = G calceolaris; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 corrections; Indian Orchids: A Guide to Identification and Culture Vol 2 Pradhan 1979 drawing not = G linearifolius; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 # 9 1985 photo not = G linearifolius; Opera Botanica #95 Seidenfaden 1988 drawing fide/photo not?; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002 refers plants from Bhutan with this name to G linearifolius; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo hmm; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Notes on the genus Gastrochilus (Orchidaceae) in Myanmar LIU, ZHOU, LI, TAN, ZYAW, XING, GAO 2020

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