Gastrochilus sororius Schlechter 1913 Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved.

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Common Name The Closely Related Gastrochilus

Flower Size .6" [1.4 cm]

Found in Borneo, Java, Sumatra and Sulawesi in hill and lower montane forests at elevations below 1550 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte and is another attractive member of this genus with miniature Phalaenopsis-like growth habit, with a terete stem carrying 5 to 6, thick, fleshy, 4", narrwoly lanceolate, very unevenly bilobed apically leaves, that blooms in the late fall on a pendant 1" spikes with triangular, concave floral bracts and bearing a dense head of up to 10 pretty 1/2" blooms, the spreading and rounded greenish sepals and petals are spotted brownish red with a white sack-shaped lip, spotted red on the inside with a white and yellow bearded appendage.

Synonyms Saccolabium calceolare J.J.Sm. Sensu 1905

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003;