Gastrochilus bellinus (Rchb.f.) Kuntze

Orchid Species: Gastrochilus bellinus

(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)

Gastrochilus bellinus is an orchid species identified by (Rchb.f.) Kuntze in 1891.

Genus

Gastrochilus (Gchls.)

Grex

bellinus
(name currently accepted by Kew)

Parents

Species

Author

(Rchb.f.) Kuntze

Year

1891

ORIGIN: Found in Myanmar, Thailand, southern China and Laos in dense forests at elevations of 600 to 1700 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, warm to cool growing, monopodial epiphyte with a short to long stem carrying to 6 or 8, falcate, narrowly oblanceolate, deeply unequal, subacutely bifid apically leaves with a very short, erect, suborbicular inflorescence with a few [2 to 7], fragrant, waxy flowers occurring in the late winter and spring.

FLOWER SIZE: 1 3/4 inch [3.35 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).

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