Gastrochilus hainanensis

 Gastrochilus hainanensis Z.H.Tsi, Bull. Bot. Res., Harbin 9(2): 21 (1989).

Gastrochilus hainanensis Z.H.Tsi, Photo by Christophe Aubin

 its native range is Central Hainan to Indo-China.

Latinh Name: 

Gastrochilus hainanensis Z.H.Tsi

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

No synonyms are recorded for this name.

Vietnamese name:

Hàm lân Hải nam.

English Name:

The Hainan Gastrochilus.

Chinese name:

Hai Nan Pen Ju Lan - 海南盆距兰 

Description: 

Stems 1-2 cm, ca. 5 mm in diam. Leaves 4 or 5, nearly basal; blade oblong, 14-17 × 2-3 cm, fleshy, apex obtuse and unequally 2-lobed. Inflorescence subumbellate, short, several flowered; peduncle 2-3 cm, ca. 3 mm in diam.; floral bracts ovate-triangular, 3-4 mm. Flowers widely opening, thickly textured; sepals and petals yellow, with purplish red spots; lip white, with purple-red spots. Sepals subsimilar, obovate-elliptic, 7-10 × 3-4 mm, apex obtuse. Petals shorter and narrower than sepals; lip with an epichile and a saccate hypochile; epichile ovate-triangular, ca. 6 × 10 mm, thickly fleshy, glabrous, basal margin membranous and slightly toothed, with a large central cushion, and a reversely T-shaped groove at its base, apex rounded, recurved; hypochile conic, 7-8 mm tall, 5-5.5 mm in diam. Column purple, short, thick; rostellum pale yellow, 2-lobed; anther cap nearly subglobose, apex narrowed into a beak. Fl. Aug.

Distribution:

Hainan, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam (Tây Nguyên).

Ecological:

In forests on tree trunks at elevations of 300 to 400 m as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the summer.

Flower size:

2.0 cm.

Cultivation:

LIGHT/LOCATION: semi-shady

TEMPERATURE: cool (10 - 16 °C)

WATERING: spray regularly

FERTILIZATION: none

Type:

Type Information: Distribution Of Types Hainan.