Gastrodia javanica (Blume) Lindl. 1840 Photos courtesy of Dr. E.F. de Vogel, André Schuiteman and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website

Common Name or Meaning The Javanese Gastrodia

Flower Size .6" [1.7cm]

Found in Taiwan, Thailand, Borneo, Java, Malaysia, Sumatra and the Philippines at elevations near sea level as a large sized, hot growing terrestrial with a fleshy and cylindrical rhizomegiving rise to a purple brown erect, to 2' [60 cm] long, 2 to 10 flowered inflorescence with triangular acute floral bracts.

Synonyms *Epiphanes javanica Blume 1825; Gastrodia hasseltii Blume 1856; Gastrodia javanica f. thalassina Yokota 1998 publ. 1999; Gastrodia lutea Fukuy 1935; Gastrodia malayana Ridl. 1907; Gastrodia stapfii Hayata 1911

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Woods and Seidenfaden 1992; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003;