Gastrochilus pseudodistichus (King & Pantl.) Schltr. 1913

InflorescencePhoto by © Philipp Wojtas

Common Name The False Distichous Gastrochilus

Flower Size .2" [4 to 5 mm]

Found in The Chinease Himalayas, Assam, the eastern Himalayas, Thailand and Vietnam in coniferous forests at elevations of 1200 to 2600 meters as a creeping, miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing lithophyte with a pendant, branching, slender stem enveloped completely by leaf-bearing shaeths and carrying fleshy, lanceolate, acuminate to minutely bifid, sessile, jointed leaves that blooms in the summer on an axillary, racemose, subumbellate, successively 5 to 6 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Gastrochilus hoyopsis (Rolfe ex Downie) Seidenf. & Smitinand 1963; Saccolabium distichus var pseudodistichum [King & Pantl.] Finet 1934; Saccolabium hoyopse Rolfe ex Downie 1925; *Saccolabium pseudodistichum King & Pantl. 1895

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 as G. hoyopsis drawing; Orchids Australia Vol 12 No 4 2000; Lindleyana Vol 15 No 4 2000; The Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002

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