Staurochilus guibertii ( Linden & Rchb.f. ) Christenson 1994
Disected Column and Lip Photos courtesy of Timothy Cholcto
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Common Name Guibert's Staurachilus [French Orchid Enthusiast 1800's]
Flower Size 1.4 to 1.8" [3.5 to 4.5 cm]
A medium to large sized, monopodial epiphyte or lithophyte on limestone found in the Philippines with subterete stems enveloped by leaf sheaths and carrying 2 ranked, oblong-strap-shaped, leathery, dark green, unequally bilobed apically with obtuse lobed leaves that blooms in the later spring and summer a long, axillary, erecct to pendant, racemose, loosely several to many flowered, paniculate inflorescence with successive opening flowers.
Synonyms *Cleisostoma guiberti Linden & Rchb. f. 1862; Trichoglottis guibertii (Linden & Rchb. f.) Rchb. f. 1872; Trichoglottis guibertii (Linden & Rchb. f.) J.J. Sm.1912; Trichoglottis guihertii (Linden & Rchb. f.) Ames & Quisumb. 1935; Vanda guiberti Linden & Rchb. f. 1862
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1867 as Cleisostoma guiberti drawing fide; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984 as Trichoglottis guibertii; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo fide;
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