Gonatostylis vieillardii (Rchb.f.) Schltr. 1906 Photo by © Edouard Faria
Inflorescence Photo by © Peter O'Byrne
Plant in situ New Caledonia Photos by © Edouard Faria
Common Name Vieillard's Gonatostylis [French Botanist and Plant Collector in Melanesia 1800's]
Flower Size very small
Found in New Caledonia and Wallis and Futna Islands in rainforests either in humus, on rocks or at the base of very mossy trees at elevations of 100 to 1400 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial or lithophyte or ocasionally low mossy epiphyte with a numerous, green to purplish red, darker veined, narrowly elliptic, acute leaves that blooms in the weinter and spring on a terminal, erect, to [70 cm] long, 15 to 65 flowered inflorescence
Synonyms *Rhamphidia vieillardii Rchb.f. 1876; Zeuxine vieillardii (Rchb.f.) Schltr.1905
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 5 257- 320 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1974 photo plant only; Flore de la Nouvelle-Caledonie et Dependences Vol 8 Orchidaceae Halle 1977 as Zeuxine vieillardii drawing fide; Flore de la Nouvelle-Caledonie et Dependences Vol 8 Orchidaceae Halle 1977 drawing fide; Native Orchids of New Caledonia Societe Neo-Caledonienne D'Orchidophile 1995 photo plant only fide; Native Orchids of New Caledonia Societe Neo-Caledonienne D'Orchidophile 1995 as Zeuxine vieillardii photo fide; Orchids of Samoa Whistler & Cribb 1996 as Zeuxine vieillardii photo fide
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