Geodorum recurvum

Geodorum recurvum (Roxb.) Alston, in Trimen, Hand-Book Fl. Ceylon vi. Suppl., 276 (1931).

Geodorum recurvum (Roxb.) Alston, Photo by Trần Xuân Thiện

its native range is Assam to S. China and Indo-China.

Latin Name: 

Geodorum recurvum (Roxb.) Alston

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Geodorum cochinchinense Gagnep.

Geodorum dilatatum R.Br.

Geodorum laoticum Guillaumin

Geodorum pulchellum Ridl.

Geodorum regnieri Gagnep.

Limodorum recurvum Roxb.

Vietnamese name:

Địa kim cong, Lan đất cong.

English Name:

The Bent Geodorum (refers to the bent inflorescence).

Chinese name:

Duo Hua Di Bao Lan - 多花地宝兰 .

Description: 

With tuber-like, noded pseudobulbs and carrying 2 to 3, elliptic-oblong to elliptic, acuminate to shortly acuminate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late winter and spring on a basal, erect then sharply arching, 15 to 18 cm long, shorter than the leaves, many 10 to 18 flowered inflorescence with linear-lanceolate bracts.

Distribution:

Assam, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam (Đồng Nai, Phước Bình, The National Forest of Yokdon).

Ecological:

This small sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial species in humid, mossy, mixed, coniferous forests, in semi-deciduous and deciduous dry lowland forests and savana-like woodlands at elevations of sealevel to 700 m in shady, humid, habitats with rocky substrates.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the late winter and spring.

Flower size:

2.0 cm.

Cultivation:

Typus:

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- https://www.ipni.org/n/635629-1

- http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:635629-1

- http://www.orchidspecies.com/geodorumspe.htm.

- http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=242323206