Goodyera hemsleyana King & Pantl. 1895 SECTION Goodyera Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

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Common Name Hemsley's Goodyera [English, Kew Worker 1800's]

Flower Size 3/8' to 1/2" [1 to 2 cm]

Found in Sikkim, Nepal and Assam as a miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with an erect stem carrying 3 to 5, distant, unequal, broadly ovate, acute, glabroue, dark green, white reticulated, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, erect, .8 to 1.8" [2 to 4.5 cm] long, several [2 to 7] flowered inflorescence with subsecund flowers.

Synonyms Epipactis hemsleyana (King & Pantl.) A.A.Eaton 1908

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2007