All Floras      Advanced Search
FOC Vol. 25 Page 492, 497 Login | eFloras Home | Help
FOC | Family List | FOC Vol. 25 | Orchidaceae | Gastrochilus

20. Gastrochilus ciliaris F. Maekawa, J. Jap. Bot. 12: 92. 1936.

缘毛盆距兰 yuan mao pen ju lan

Stems creeping, to 10 cm, with many leaves. Leaf blade abaxially with brown spots, ovate-elliptic to oblanceolate, 0.8-2.5 × 0.4-0.5 cm, fleshy, leathery, apex acute or apiculate. Inflorescence subumbellate, ca. 1.2 cm, 3- or 4-flowered; floral bracts small, ca. 1 mm; pedicel and ovary 3-4 mm. Flowers yellowish green, with brown spots abaxially. Sepals similar, elliptic, 2.7-3 × 1-1.3 mm, concave, apex obtuse or acute. Petals rhombic-elliptic, 2.4-2.7 × ca. 1.3 mm; lip with an epichile and a saccate hypochile; epichile triangular, ca. 3 mm wide, ciliate, adaxially very sparsely pubescent; hypochile nearly subglobose, ca. 2 mm tall. Column ca. 1 mm, stout. Fl. unknown.

On trees in forests; ca. 1800 m. C Taiwan [Japan].


 

Flora of China @ efloras.org
Browse by
Volume
Family
Genera
Advanced Search


Flora of China Home


Checklist

 

 

 |  eFlora Home |  People Search  |  Help  |  ActKey  |  Hu Cards  |  Glossary  |