Gonatostylis vieillardii (Rchb.f.) Schltr. 1906

Plant and Flowers in situ New Caledonia Photos by © Edouard Faria

Common Name Vieillard's Gonatostylis

Flower Size very small

Found in New Caledonia and Wallis and Futna Islands in rainforests either in humus, on rocks or at the base of very mossy trees at elevations of 100 to 1400 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial or lithophyte or ocasionally low mossy epiphyte with a numerous, green to purplish red, darker veined, narrowly elliptic, acute leaves that blooms in the weinter and spring on a terminal, erect, to [70 cm] long, 15 to 65 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms *Rhamphidia vieillardii Rchb.f. 1876; Zeuxine vieillardii (Rchb.f.) Schltr.1905

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Native Orchids of New Caledonia Societe Neo-Caledonienne D'Orchidophile 1995 photo plant only fide;

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