Gastrodia major Aver. 2006 Type Drawing by Leonid Averyanov and the The Orchids of Vietnam Illustrated survey Part 3 Subfamily Epidendroideae primitive_tribes -Neottieae VanilleaeGastrodieaeNervilieae Websitre
DrawingPhotos/Drawing by © Averyanov and Hoa Lan Vietnam Website
Common Name or Meaning The Large Gastrodia
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Dak Lac Vietnam in secondary, evergreen, lowland and submontane, closed, broadleaf, shady forests with bamboo at elevations of 700 to 900 meters as a small to medium sized, warm growing mycoheterotrophic terrestrial with no leaves with a cylindrical, slightly bent, densely hairy, fleshy, brown tuber giving rise to an erect, rigid, straight to slightly flexuous, olive brown, whitish towards the apex, 10 to 24" [25 to 60 cm] long, stem with 5 to 8, broad, ovate to narrowly ovate, obtuse bracts that blooms in the fall on a terminal, 8 to 18" [20 to 45 cm] long peduncle and a 1.6 to 6" [4 to 15 cm] long rachis carrying 4 to 10 distant flowers with narrowly triangular, rigid, deep brown, acute floral bracts.
Synonyms Leptogastrodia major (Aver.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2019
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Rheedea 16: 7 Averyanov 2006 drawing/photo fide; Turczaninowia 2011, 14(2) : 15–100 Averyanov 2011 drawing/photo fide
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