Geodorum pallidum D.Don 1825 Drawing by © The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Pale Geodorum

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in the the eastern Himalayas, India and Nepal at elevations around 850 to 900 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with an ovoid, annulated pseudobulb carrying immature at flowering, lanceolate becoming broadly elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, plicate, 7 veined, tapering below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on an, arising from below the summit of the pseudobulb, 20 to 25" [50 to 65 cm] long, laxly many flowered inflorescence with 2, loose, basal sheaths and shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying waxy, fragrant flowers.

Synonyms Cymbidium nutans (Roxb.) Sw. 1799; Geodorum purpureum R.Br. 1813; Limodorum nutans Roxb. 1795; Malaxis nutans (Roxb.) Willd. 1805

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 as G purpureum drawing fide; The Orchids of North-Western Himalaya Vol IX Part II Duthie 1906 as Geodorum purpureum drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965;

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