Gastrochilus patinatus (Ridl.) Schltr. 1913 Photo by © Abiom.orchid1 and his Flickr Photo site

Common Name The Basin Shaped Gastrochilus [refers to the lip shape]

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Malaysia, Borneo and New Guinea in mixed forests at elevations around 300 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with a short stem carrying 5 to 7, oblong to oblong-elliptic, unequally bilobed apically, margins undulate, leathery, dark green, basally clasping leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on a short to 1.4" [3.5 cm] long, arising from below the leaves, 5 to 6 flowered inflorescence carrying fleshy, sweetly fragrant flowers

Synonyms *Saccolabium patinatum Ridl. 1870

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1953; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing fide; Orchids of Borneo Vol 1 Chan, Lamb, Shim & Wood 1994 drawing ?/photo; A Checklist Of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994;

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