Goodyera reticulata (Blume) Blume 1858

Plant and FlowersPhotos by Takato NATSU from Japan and his Japan Orchids Page

Common Name The Reticulated Goodyera

Flower Size 1/8"

Found in Java and Borneo in mixed oak/chestnut lower montane forests on sanstone ridgese at elevations around 900 meters as a miniature sized hot to warm growing terrestrial with lanceolate, acute, greyish green with white to yellow reticulation leaves that blooms on a terminal, erect, 4 to 5.3" [20 to 24 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence carrying successive opening flowers with about half open at any one time.

Synonyms Epipactis reticulata (Blume) A.A.Eaton 1908; *Neottia reticulata Blume 1825; Orchiodes reticulatum (Blume) Kuntze 1891;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Smith 1905; Orchid Digest Vol 44 No 3 1980 photo; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994;

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