Gastrochilus rotundifolius S.S.Ying 2024
Photos by S S Ying and NEW TAXA & NEW NAMES, vol 7-part two Website
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Common Name or Meaning The Round Leaved Gastrochilus
Flower Size .32 to .36" [8 to 9 mm]
Found in Taiwan on tree trunks at elevations of 2400 to 2600 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with a simple, unbranched, pendulous, green scattered with red to reddish purple spots, glabrous stem enveloped by leaf sheaths carrying alternate, distichous, sessile, rounded to ovate-rounded, obtuse and slightly emarginate at apex, obtuse at base, thickly fleshy, smooth, without any coloured spot spots, glabrous, nidrib impessed surface and elevated beneath, lustrous green surface and pale green beneath leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on an axillary, short, single flowered inflorescence with ovate-triangular, acute, half as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying a scentless, yellowish flower
"Gastrochilus rotundifolius is readily recognized by its 6.4" [16 cm] long stem, alternate, distichous, thickly fleshy, rouned to ovate-rounded leaves and solitary flower with a cuneate-rectangular in shape, emarginate at apex, irregularly dentate at margins, white epichile with a large dark green, hairy plaque with red spots in the center." S S Ying 2022
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* New Taxa New Names 7: 528 S S Ying 2024
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