Gastrochilus shaolinchianus 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 Shaolinchi Gastrochilus
Flower Size .4 to .48" [1 to 1.2 cm]
Found in Taiwan on montane slopes on trere trunks in montane forests at elevations of 2100 to 2300 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with a simple, branched, pendulous, green to pale green, glabrous stem enveloped by persistent leaf sheaths carrying distichous, sessile, ovate, obtuse to rounded apically, obtuse basally, fleshy, smooth, not spotted leaves that blooms in the late winter and spring on an axillary, peduncle .32 to .48" [8 to 12 mm] long, fleshy, green, unspotted, 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence with triangular, acute, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying yellowish, unscented flowers.
"It is readily recognized by its ovate leaves, solitary to 2 racemose flowers, yellow sepals and petals with purple plaques and rectangular, .32 to .36" [8 to 9 mm] long, .16 to .2" [4 to 5 mm] wide, emarginate at apex, with a large pale brownish .1`2 to .14" [3 to 3.5 mm] long, .1" [2.5 mm] wide large hairy plaque in center, dentate at margins lip-epichile." S S Ying 2023
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* New Taxa New Names 6: 497 S S Ying 2023
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