Gastrodia siamensis Rolfe ex Downie 1925 Photo courtesy of David Kuehn

Common Name The Thai Gastrodia

Flower Size about 1/4" [6 mm]

Found in Thailand and Sumatra at elevations of 1200 to 1400 meters as a miniature to medium sized, warm to cool growing, saprophytic, terrestrial with a terminal, 4.8 to 15.6" [12 to 38 cm] long, erect, loosely arranged, few flowered inflorecence with triangular, concave and rounded apically floral bracts with clear oval protrubances on the dorsal side.

Synonyms Gastrodia hayatae Tuyama 1941

References W3 Tropicos [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html] , Kew Monocot list [ http://www.kew.org/wcsp/home.do ], IPNI [ http://www.us.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?request_type=search&output_format=query&ret_defaults=on ]; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001;