Gastrochilus guanwuensis S.S.Ying 2023
Photos by S S Ying and NEW TAXA & NEW NAMES, vol 6-part two Website
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Common Name or Meaning The Guanwu Gastrochilus [The Area where the species occurs]
Flower Size .2 to .26" [5 to 6.5 mm]
Found in Taiwan on montane slopes on tree trunks in montane forests at elevations of 2100 to 2300 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with a simple, pendulous, pale green to brownish green, glabrous stem enveloped by persistent leaf sheaths carrying 8 to 10, distichous, sessile, oblong to linear-oblong, obtuse to rounded apically, obtuse basally, fleshy, smooth, potted brown red on both surfaces leaves that blooms in the late winter and spring on an axillary, peduncle .16 to .22" [5 to 5.5 mm] long, fleshy, green, with some scattered red spots, 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence with triangular, acute, much shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying pink tinged with pale yellow, unscented flowers.
"It is readily recognized by its small plant with simple stem, 2 to 3 small flowers in a raceme, epichile rectangular, .18 to .22" [4.5 to 5.5 mm] long, .16 to .2" [4 to 5 mm] wide, truncate at apex, white, with a large pale green .12 to .14" [3 to 3.5 mm] long, .1" [2.5 mm] wide with a large hairy plaque in center, ciliate at margins, elongate white-haired surface, white and glabrous beneath." S S Ying 2023
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* New Taxa New Names 6: 503 S S Ying 2023
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