Peristylus monticola (Ridl.) Seidenf. 1977

Plant Photos courtesy of © Dr. E.F. de Vogel, Jaap Vermeulen and André Schuiteman and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website

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Common Name or Meaning The Mountain Loving Peristylus

Flower Size .2" [5mm]

Found in the Andaman Islands, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaysia, Moluccas, the Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatra and New Guinea in open montane grasslands with seasonal fores or on roadsides that are often cut back at elevations of 1000 to 1650 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with about 3 to 5, lanceolate-ligulate, acuminate, glabrous, basally arranged leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a lax, erect, green, 10 to 15 flowered, secund inflorescence.

Synonyms Habenaria biloba (Rolfe) Schltr. 1925; Habenaria bisaeta Ames 1908; Habenaria deistelii Schltr. 1920; *Habenaria monticola Ridl. 1896; Habenaria nitida Schltr. 1911; Peristylus bilobus Rolfe 1899; Peristylus nitidus (Schltr.) P.F.Hunt 1971

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984 as P bilobus; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Wood & Seidenfaden 1992; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; Australian Orchid Review Vol 67 No 4 2002 photo; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; Flora Malesiana: Orchids of New Guinea Vol 5 Schuiteman & D de Vogel 2008

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