Goodyera rostellata Ames & C.Schweinf. 1920
Photo by Anthony Lamb
Photo courtesy of André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website
Photos by Copyright © Rogier Van Vugt and His PBase Orchid Photo Website
Common Name or Meaning The Beaked Goodyeara
Flower Size
Found only in Borneo in hill and lower montane forests at elevations of 500 to 2700 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial with 2 to 3, closely reticulated with white above, slightly copper tinted beneath, midvein prominently carinate beneath, lanceolate, acuminate, slightly oblique, rounded to subcordate base leaves taht blooms in the winter on a terminal, erect, with 4 sheaths, lowermost deltoid leaflike, to 5" [12.5 cm] long overall, rachis to 2 to 2.4" [5 to 6 cm] long, subsecund, closely pubescent, and apparently glandular throughout, rather densely many flowered inflorescence with basall clasping, abruptly longly acuminate,one nerved, longer than the ovaries in maturity floral bracts
Synonyms Goodyera ustulata Carr 1935
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 6 Ames 1920; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993 as G ustulata; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 as G ustulata; The Orchids of Sarawak Beaman & Wood 2001 as G ustulata photo fide; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 3 Orchioideae [Part 2] Vanilloideae Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2003 photo good; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 photo leaf only fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 photo ok
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