IOSPE PHOTOS

Common Name The Densely Flowered Geodorum

Flower Size 3/8" [1 cm]

A medium to small, hot growing terrestrial orchid found from the Chinease Himalayas, Assam, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Andaman Islands, Myanamar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Borneo, Java, Sumatra, Malaysia, Lesser Sunda Islands, Moluccas, Sulawesi, Philippines, Bismark Islands, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Queensland Australia, Western Australia, Fiji, Niue, New Caledonia, Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu, Caroline Islands, Marianas Islands and Taiwan in moist grasslands, sandy areas behind beaches and rainforests as well as in semi-deciduous and deciduous dry lowland forests and savana-like woodlands at elevations of sealevel to 1800 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with underground, spherical pseudobulbs carrying, 2 to 5, thin-textured, lanceolate to oblong-elliptic, plicate, petiolate leaves that blooms in the fall and spring with an erect, basal, 4 to 10" [10 to 25 cm] at the outset and extending to 12 to 16" [30 to 40 cm], many [10 to 25] flowered inflorescence with a short rachis and the waxy, non-spreading flowers crowded at the apex that always has a "U" shape to it, with the flowers clustered on the downward side until fertilization ocurs which causes it to straighten out, as it continues to arise with a new growth.

Synonyms Arethusa glutinosa Blanco 1837; Cistella cernua (Willd.) Blume 1825 ; Cymbidium pictum R. Br. 1810; Dendrobium haenkeanum Steud. 1840; Dendrobium nutans C.Presl. 1831; Geodorum dilatatum R.Br. 1813; Geodorum formosanum Rolfe ex Hemsl. 1895; Geodorum fucatum Lindl 1834; Geodorum neocaledonicum Kraenzl. 1929; Geodorum nutans Ames 1908; Geodorum pacificum Rolfe 1908; Geodorum pictum (R. Br.) Lindl. 1833; Geodorum purpureum Sensu Ridl. 1907; Geodorum rariflorum Lindl. 1855; Geodorum semicristatum Lindl. 1855; Geodorum tricarinatum Schltr. 1911; *Limodorum densiflorum Lam. 1783; Malaxis cernua Willd. 1805; Ortmannia cernua (Willd.) Opiz 1834; Otandra cernua (Willd.) Salisb. 1812; Tropidia grandis Hance 1873

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995 as G dilatatum; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905 as G pupureum; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 as G purpureum drawing, photo; Orchidiana Philippiana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1985 as Geodorum pictum (R. Br.) Lindl. 1833; Orchids of Vanuatu Lewis & Cribb 1989; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Native Orchids of New Caledonia Societe' Neo-Caledonienne D' Orchidophile 1995 as G pictum; The Orchids of Samoa Cribb & Whistler 1996; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; Orchid Flora Of Kamrup District Assam Iswar Chandra Barua 2001; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol III Shuiteman and de Vogel 2006;

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