!Stereosandra javanica Blume 1856 Photo courtesy of David Kuehn

Common Name The Javanese Stereosandra

Flower Size 1/4" [.9 to 1.1 cm]

Found in Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, New Guinea, Solomon islands, Taiwan, Samoa and the Ryukyu Islands in humid, shady, lowland primary montane forests at elevations around 250 to 1300 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing, saphrophytic terrestrial with an elongated tuber of several short, swollen internodes with erect, pale yellowish shoots carrying a few short sheaths to 16" [40 cm] tall and blooms on a terminal, 6" [15 cm] long, laxly several to many flowered rachis.

Synonyms Stereosandra javanica var. papuana J.J.Sm. 1929; Stereosandra koidzumiana Ohwi 1937; Stereosandra liukiuensis Tuyama 1938; Stereosandra pendula Kraenzl. 1901

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Smith 1905; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; Flora Malesia Orchids of New Guinea Vol V 2008;

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