!Cyrtosia javanica Blume 1825
Plant and Flower in situ Cameron Highlands Photos by © David Kuehn
Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Donald Tan
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Common Name The Javanese Cyrtosia
Flower Size vertically 5/8" [1.4 cm]
Occurring in Java, Sumatra, Malaysia, Thailand, penninsular Malaysia and Borneo at elevations of 700 to 2700 meters in lower montane, primary, evergreen, broad-leafed forests as a miniature to small sized, 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 ; Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1862 drawing fide; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Smith 1905 as Galeola javanica; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Lindleyana Vol 15 No 4 2000; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol III Shuiteman and de Vogel 2006
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