Goodyera procera (Ker Gawl.) Hook. 1823 SECTION Goodyera

Photo by © Natsui

Plant and Flowers in situ Cameron Highlands Malaysia

Photo by © David Kuehn

Full shadeCool To Warm Winter EARLY Spring

Common Name The Tall Goodyera - Japan - Kingin-so [Golden-silver weed] - In China Gao Ban Ye Lan - In Thailand Khao la o - The Tall Rattlesnake Plantain

Flower Size .08 to .12" [2 to 3 mm] wide

Found from Assam, Bangladesh, eastern Himalayas, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, western Himalayas, Bhutan, China, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Borneo, Java, Sumatra, Lesser Sunda Islands, The Philippines, Ryukyu Islands and Japan at elevations of 100 to 2400 meters in wet open mossy places among secondary grasslands and open shrubs, commonly along rocky stream valleys and on spring seepages as a small to large sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial species with a whitish stem enveloped completely by lanceolate, acute, acuminate, petiolate, basally clasping leaves, uppermost smaller than below that blooms in the winter and early spring on an erect, to 8" [to 20 cm] long, many flowered, closely set, racemose inflorescence with 2 to 3 well spaced bracts and long-triangular, acute floral bracts and carrying flowers that do not open widely.

Synonyms Cionisaccus lanceolatus Breda 1829; Cordylestylis foliosa Falc. 1842; Epipactis parviflora (Hassk.) A.A.Eaton 1908; Epipactis philippinensis Ames 1908; Epipactis procera A.A. Eaton 1908; Goodyera carnea A. Rich. 1841; Goodyera lancifolia Franch. & Sav. 1878; Goodyera parviflora (Hassk.) Blume 1858; Goodyera philippinensis (Ames) Schltr. 1911; Leucostachys procera Hoffmanns. 1842; Neottia parvifolia Blume 1825; *Neottia procera Ker Gawl. 1822; Orchiodes parviflorum (Hassk.) Kuntze 1891; Orchiodes procerum (Ker Gawl.) Kuntze 1891; Peramium procerum (Ker Gawl.) Makino 1929; Spiranthes parviflora (Blume) Hassk. 1844

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1855; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1857; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Smith 1905; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Smith 1905 as G parviflora; The Orchids of North-Western Himalaya Vol IX Part II Duthie 1906; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing fide;Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Fascile 2 Ames 1908 as pipactis philippinensis drawing fide; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 as G parviflora drawing fide; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Orchideologiae Sino-Japonicae Prodromus Schlechter 1919; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1927; Flore Generale de L'Indo-Chine Gagnepain 1934; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfadden & Smitnand 1959 drawing ok; Orchids of Southern Ryukyu Islands Garay & Sweet 1974 drawing fide; Native Orchids of Taiwan Lin 1975 Drawing fide/photo ok; Indian Orchids, Guide to Identification and Culture Pradhan 1976 drawing fide; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Orchid Genera in Thailand Vol VI Neottiodeae Seidenfaden 1978 drawing fide; The Complete Writings on Philippine Orchids Vol 1 Quisumbing 1981 as G philippinense; A Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon Vol 2 Dassanayake & Fosberg 1981 drawing fide; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984 as G philippinensis; Orchidiana Philippiana Vol 1 Valmayor 1986; Orchids of Arunachal Pradesh Hegde 1984; Orchids of north West Himalayas Deva & Naithani 1986 drawing fide; Orchids of Nilgiris Joseph 1987 drawing good; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo fide; Orchids of Kumaun Himalayas Pangtey, Samant and Rawat 1991; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; The Orchids of Nagaland Deorani & Naithani 1995 drawing good; The Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen & Mori 1997 photo good; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; Orchid Flora of Kamrup District, Assam Iswar Chandra Barua 2001 drawing fide; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2002 photo ?; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo good; The Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing hmm; Orchids of Vietnam, Illustrated survey, part 1 Averyanov 2008; Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Mountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009 photo fide; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo ok; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; The Atlas of Wild Orchids in Hainan Island, China Shenyan and Junmei 2010 photo plant only; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos ok; A review on Spiranthoideae genera in Arunachal Pradesh Bulletin of Arunachal Forest Research 27 (1&2) : 1-33, Rao 2011 drawing/photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing fide/photo ok; Flora Of Thailand Orchidaceae Vol 12 Part 1 Pedersen, Kurzweil, Suddee & Cribb 2011 drawing/photo fide; The Wild Orchids of Hong Kong Barretto, Cribb and Gale 2011 drawing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 83 #8 2014 drawing fide; The Wild Orchids of Taiwan Lin & Wang 2014 photos fide; Orchids of Odisha Misra 2014 drawing fide; LANKESTERIANA 15(1): 7—50. Jeewan Singh Jalal & J. Jayanthi 2015 photo fide; Wild Orchids of Myanmar Tun 2014 photos fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #3 2016 as Neottia procera drawing fide; Terrestrial Orchids Swami 2016 photo fide; Turczaninowia 19 (3): 5–58 L. V. Averyanov, Khang Sinh Nguyen etal 2016 ; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide

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