Gastrochilus inconspicuus (Hook.f.) Kuntze 1891 SECTION Gastrochilus Photos by © Jonojit Roy in India
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Common Name The Inconspicuous Gastrochilus]
Flower Size .2" [6 mm]
Found in the western Himalayas, Bangladesh, Assam, eastern Himalayas and Nepal at elevations of 200 to 700 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with a terete, flexuous stem envelopd by red-brown leafless sheaths belwo and above carrying terete, straight to weakly curved, rugose-striate, dark green, sessile leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on various lateral, racemose, to.8" [2 cm] long, 1 to 4 flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Cymbidium inconspicuum Wall. ex Hook.f. 1895; Luisia inconspicua (Hook.f.) King & Pantl. 1898; Luisia micrantha Hook.f. 1890; Luisiopsis inconspicua (Hook.f.) Sath.Kumar & P.C.S.Kumar 2005; *Saccolabium inconspicuum Hook.f. 1890
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2001