Nervilia gammieana (Hook.f.) Pfitzer 1888 SECTION Nervilia Drawing by Copyright © S. Hameed E Floras Web Site

Common Name Gammie's Nervilia [English Botanist at the Chinchona [Quinine] plantations 1800's]

Flower Size .6" to .8" [1.5 to 2 cm]

Found in Pakistan, the western Himalayas, India, Nepal and the eastern Himalayas in pine forests at elevations around 1000 meters as a small sized, warm growing terrestrial with a subglobose, tuberculate,stout, green tuber giving rise to a glabrous, orbicular-cordate, acuminate, undulate margin, basal sinus deep, veined, deep green above, pale green beneath, narrowing below into the cylindric, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, green, 2.4 to 3.2" [6 to 8 cm] long, 6 to 8 flowered inflorescence with linear, membraneous floral bracts.

Synonyms *Pogonia gammieana Hook.f.1883

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 as Pogonia gammieana drawing fide; The Orchids of North-Western Himalaya Vol IX Part II Duthie 1906 as Pogonia gammieana; The Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002 drawing fide;

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