~Cystorchis javanica (Blume) Blume 1859 - See Cystorchis variegata Blume 1859 Photo courtesy of André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website

Common Name The Javanese Cystochis

Flower Size 1/4" [6 mm]

Found in Java now considered a synonym of Cystorchis variegata and specifically called Cystorchis variegata var purpurea. Differ mostly in the color of the leaves, this one has dark wine red, more finely undulate leaves , closer spaces flowers, with greenish and boadened basally, reddish in the center and paler apically on the sepals with white, oblong-linear, margins finely pilose petals and has a basally white, reddish in the center, paler towards the apex lip and a smaller apical lamina. Cystorhcis variegata has light green with dark green tessellated, more finely undulate leaves, sepals colored yellowish basally, reddish brown centrally, and cream apically, petals that are lanceolate and white and a "lip with a small 1/2 round almost triangular lamina".

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003;