Peristylus goodyeroides (D.Don) Lindl. 1835

Photo by © Rik

Side View of Flower

Photo by © Rogier Van Vugt and his P Base Orchid Photo Website

Another Flower? Lip with acute trilobed apex = P affinis?

Plant and Flowers in situ northern Thailand

Photos by © David Kuehn

Fragrance Part sunWarmCold LATERSpringEARLY Summer

Common Name The Goodyera-Like Peristylus - In Thailand - Wan khao phae - Ueang nang tai - In China Kuo Rui Lan

Flower Size .2 to 3/8" [5 to 10mm]

Found in the western Himalayas, Assam, India, Bangladesh, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, China, Malaysia, Borneo, Java, the Moluccas, the Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatra and New Guinea along streams in hill forests and at elevations around 100 to 2830 meters as a medium to large sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial with ellipsoid to cylindric, pubescent tubers giving rise to an erect, basally sheathed stem carrying 3 to 4, clustered, ovate to ovate-elliptic, acute, basally narrowing leaves that blooms in the later spring and early summer on a terminal, densely to subdensely many flowered, 10" [to 25 cm] long, glabrous inflorescence with lanceolate floral bracts and carrying sweetly scented flowers.

Synonyms Digomphotis undulata Raf. 1837; Habenaria glaucescens Ridl.1896; *Habenaria goodyeroides D.Don 1825; Habenaria goodyeroides var. affinis King & Pantl. 1898; Habenaria goodyeroides var. formosana Hayata 1914; Habenaria grandis Benth. ex Ridl. 1885; Habenaria hayataeana Schltr. 1919; Habenaria hollandiae (J.J.Sm.) Schltr. 1911; Habenaria lauterbachii Kraenzl. ex K.Schum. & Lauterb. 1900; Habenaria pandurilabia Schltr. 1919; Habenaria tenii Schltr. 1921; Herminium goodyeroides (D.Don) Lindl. 1832; Peristylus hollandiae J.J.Sm. 1911; Peristylus horsfieldii Blume 1856; Peristylus sphaerocentron Tang & F.T.Wang 1951; Peristylus warburgianus Kraenzl. 1898; Platanthera horsfieldii (Blume) Náves 1880

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1878; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Fascile 2 Ames 1908 as H goodyeroides; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 as Habenaria goodyerioides as Habenaria goodyerioides var affinis drawing fide; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Smith 1905; The Orchids of North-Western Himalaya Vol IX Part II Duthie 1906 as habenaria goodyeriaoides; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol II Ames 1908 as Habenaria goodyeroides; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing fide; Engler's Beiblatt Zu Den Botanischen Jahrbuchern Sumatra Schlechter 1911 as Habaneraia Goodyeroides; The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 as Habenaria goodyeroides drawing fide; Orchideologiae Sino-Japonicae Prodomus Schlecheter 1919 as Habenaria pandurilabia; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol VI Ames 1920 as Habenaria goodyeroides; Engler's Beiblatt Zu Den Botanischen Jahrbuchern Micronesia Schlechter 1921 as Habenaria goodyeroides; Flore Generale de Indo-Chine Volume 6 Gagnepain 1934 as H goodyeroides; Flora Of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957 as Habenaria goodyeroides; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 description yes drawing not = P constrictus; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1964 corrections; AOS Bulletin Vol 38 No 3 1969; Contributions to a Revision of the Orchid Flora of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam Seidenfaden 1975 as Habenaria goodyeroides; Indian Orchids: Guide to Identification and Culture Pradhan 1976 drawing ok; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 31 #3 Orchid Genera in Thailand V Orchidoideae Seidenfaden 1977 drawing fide; The Orchids of Papua New Guinea An Introduction Millar 1978 as Habenaria goodyeroides D Don photo not = Habenaria?; The Complete Writings on Philippine Orchids Vol 1 Quisumbing 1981 as Habenaria goodyeroides; Orchids of Nilgiris Joseph 1987 drawing fide; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo good; Orchids of Kumaun Himalayas Pangtey, Samant and Rawat 1991; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Woods 1992 drawing/photo fide; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo fide; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 2 Part One Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2001 drawing fide; Orchid Flora of Kamrup District, Assam Iswar Chandra Barua 2001 drawing fide; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; The Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo fide; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing fide to the 1st photo; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo ok; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing ok; Flora Of Thailand Orchidaceae Vol 12 Part 1 Pedersen, Kurzweil, Suddee & Cribb 2011 drawing/photo fide; The Wild Orchids of Hong Kong Barretto, Cribb and Gale 2011 drawing/photo fide; Orchids of Odisha Misra 2014 drawing ok; LANKESTERIANA 15(1): 7—50. Jeewan Singh Jalal & J. Jayanthi 2015; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;

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