!Cyrtosia javanica Blume 1825

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Donald Tan

to

Common Name The Javanese Cyrtosia

Flower Size vertically 5/8" [1.4 cm]

Occuring in Java, Sumatra, Malaysia, Thailand, penninsular Malaysia and Borneo at elevations of 700 to 2700 meters in lower montane forests as a warm to cold growing leafless saprophytic herb with a stout, erect rhizome with several spreading cylindrical fleshy roots and carrying several, erect, branched, often curved stems with numerous scale leaves and blooms on a terminal, elongating inflorescence with successive, nonresupinate flowers

Synonyms Cyrtosia minahassae (Schltr.) Garay 1986; Galeola javanica (Blume) Benth. & Hook. f. 1883; Galeola kawakamii J.J.Sm. ex Koord.-Schum. 1913; Galeola minahassae Schltr. 1911

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol III Shuiteman and de Vogel 2006

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------