Gastrochilus loshanensis S.S.Ying 2024
Photos by S S Ying and NEW TAXA & NEW NAMES, vol 7-part two Website
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Common Name or Meaning The Loshan Gastrochilus [A forests on Taiwan]
Flower Size .4 to .48" [1 to 1.2 cm]
Found in Taiwan on tree trunks at elevation of 2300 to 2600 meters as a mini-minature sized, cold growing epiphyte with a pendulous, green tinged with purple, glabous stem enveloped by sheaths carrying non-distichous, sessile, oblong, obtuse to acute apically, obtuse basally, fleshy, smoth, with a few red spots, glabrous leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on an axillary, short, single flowered inflorescence with ovate-triangular, acute apically, , half as long as the overy floral bracts and carrying a scentless, yellowish flower.
"Gastrochilus loshanensis is readily recognized by its 3.2" [8 cm] long stem, alternate, not distichous, fleshy, oblong leaves and a solitary flower with cuneate-rectangular, .22 to .26" [5.5 to 6.5 mm] long, emarginate at apex, with a 1 to .12" [2.5 to 3 mm] long, .1" [2.5 mm] wide, large hairy, yellow with red spotted plaque in the center, and a ciliate to irregularly dentate at margins epichile." S S Ying 2022
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* New Taxa New Names 7: 522 S S Ying 2024
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