Gastrochilus distichus (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891 SECTION Microphylli Benth & Hook 1993 Photo © by Taiwan Orchid Website

Common Name The Distichous Gastrochilus [refers to the leaves being 2 ranked]

Flower Size .4 to 3/4" [1 to 1.8 cm]

Found in the eastern Himalayas, Nepal and China in shade on moss covered trees in dense rain forests at elevations of 1520 to 2700 meters as a small sized, cool to cold, pendant growing epiphyte with slendre, clustered, pendant, branched stems enveloped by leaf bearing sheaths and carrying several, distichous, narrowly lanceolate, fleshy, acuminate, 2 to 3 needle pointed apex, sessile leaves that blooms in the spring on a leaf opposed, glabrous, slender, racemose, 2 to 4 flowered, more or less sigmoid-shaped inflorescence with 2 distant, lanceolate, basally tubular bracts and oblong, subacute flora lbracts

Synonyms Gastrochilus biglandulosus Kuntze 1891; Saccolabium distichum Lindl.1859

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1878 as Saccolabium distichus; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Mountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009 photo fide;

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