!Stereosandra javanica Blume 1856

Photo by © David Kuehn

Common Name The Javanese Stereosandra - In China Rou Yao Lan

Flower Size 1/4" [.9 to 1.1 cm]

Found in Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, the Philippines, New Guinea, Solomon islands, Taiwan, Samoa and the Ryukyu Islands in humid, shady, lowland primary montane forests at elevations around 250 to 1500 meters as a small sized, hot to coolgrowing, mycoheterotrophic terrestrial with an elongated tuber of several short, swollen internodes with erect, pale yellowish shoots carrying a few short sheaths to 16" [40 cm] tall and blooms in the spring on a terminal, 6" [15 cm] long, successively laxly several to many flowered rachis with to 6 flowers open at any one time.

Synonyms Stereosandra javanica var. papuana J.J.Sm. 1929; Stereosandra koidzumiana Ohwi 1937; Stereosandra liukiuensis Tuyama 1938; Stereosandra pendula Kraenzl. 1901

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