Gastrochilus dasypogon

Gastrochilus dasypogon (Sm.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 661 (1891) as per POWO and Link;
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Gastrochilus acutifolius (Lindl.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 661 1891. (syn: Aerides umbellata Wall. [Invalid]; Gastrochilus dentatus (Rchb.f.) Kuntze; Gastrochilus denticulatus (Paxton) Kuntze; Saccolabium acutifolium Lindl.; Saccolabium dentatum Rchb.f.; Saccolabium denticulatum Paxton);
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Himalaya to China (SW. Yunnan) and N. Indo-China: Assam, Cambodia, East Himalaya, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya as per POWO;
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Common name: Pointed-Leaf Belly-Lip Orchid
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An article on Gastrochilus:
Here is a link to one of my new articles which covers two aspects.

Amerasinghe, K., N. Weerasinghe, M. Abeysinghe, C. Bandara, K.P. Wojtas & P. Kumar. 2023. Gastrochilus flabelliformis (Blatt. & McCann) C.J.Saldanha (Epidendroideae: Vandeae: Aeridinae), an addition to the orchid flora of Sri Lanka, with taxonomic notes on Gastrochilus dasypogon (Sm.) Kuntze. Feddes Repertorium 134 (2): online first; Link

As the file is big, it wont go to the group on email.

Firstly, a species that was first seen 20 years back and remained unidentified. In 2017 some images of the fresh plant were sent to me from Sri Lanka by Dr. Kumudu Amerasinghe, and I requested my dear friend Dr. Champika Bandara to have a look at the plant, dissect and photograph if possible. With the help of another dear friend, Dr. Philip Wojtas, we confirmed the identity of this plant as Gastrochilus flabelliformis, a new and authentic record of this entity from Sri Lanka, that was earlier considered endemic to South India. Sri Lankan friends were also able to propagate this plant through in-vitro seed culture for conservation purposes.

Second part is like a game called “Chinese Whispers” or “Telephone”, where a word or sentence is communicated from one person to another, and the meaning of original word or sentence is lost. In our case a very detailed painting existed based on which a species was named, Saccolabium dasypogon 190 years ago in 1833 (later transferred to genus Gastrochilus in 1891 as Gastrochilus dasypogon). Copies were made of this painting, however, each copy differed from the original. This caused problems in the identification of this species later on, depending on who accessed which copy of this painting. In this manuscript we rectify this issue by invalidating the copies of the original painting and also show to the world how variable this entity is.

Hope you will find it interesting.

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Gastrochilus acutifolius (Lindl.) Kuntze ??? : 5 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (8)

Location: Dolakha, Nepal

Date : 19 October, 2017

Elevation : 5600 ft.

Very beautiful and one of my favourite genus. It does look like Gastrochilus acutifolius. Can you please share pic of whole plant?

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Enclosing images as you desired. Please let me know if it is sufficient.
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wow, how come so many different orchids at one place….
Ok I just noticed, they are planted.
Yes I still think this to be acutifolius.

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Shillong plant for ID -2 : 8 posts by 5 authors. Attachments (1)
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Very beautiful.. Acampe? … please..!!

Gastrochilus acutifolius (Lindl.) Kuntze ???

Gastrochilus acutifolius

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Gastrochilus acutifolius (Lindl.) Kuntze : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (6) – around 450 kb each.

Location : Kathmandu , Nepal

Altitude: 4500 ft.

Date: 14 November 2018
Habit : Collected from wild.

I cannot make out the size of whole plant.
And obviously it is not good to collect from wild.

Yes, I agree … I collect it when I find them on the ground on a fallen branch or left by lumberjaks.

Gastrochilus acutifolius (Lindl.) Kuntze : 10 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (3)- 1, 2 & 3 mb.

Location: Indra Daha, Kathmandu, Nepal

Altitude: 1800 m.

Date: 14 October 2019

Habit : Wild

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Leaves are somehow not normal, but cant think of any other option but Gastrochilus acutifolius.

Thank you … Leaves slightly wilted.

Leaves are shorter than expected and placed distantly, they were expected to be placed closer.
I have seen acutiolius in wild in Pokhara and Uttarakhand, leaves were certainly different from your plant.
But anyways, dont see any other option right now.

Yes, according to the phenology also it should be the same.

Gastrochilus acutifolius (Lindl.) Kuntze : 9 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1)- 7 mb.

Location: Suryabinayak, Bhaktapur

Date: 15 November 2019

Elevation: 1424m.
Habitat: Wild

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Very interesting. Yes this looks like Gastrochilus acutifolius.

SK 3308 10 January 2022: 9 very high res. images.

Location: Badikhel, Lalitpur

Altitude: 1702 m.

Date: 24 November 2021
Habit : Wild
Gastrochilus acutifolius (Lindl.) Kuntze

Gastrochilus sp. for identification: 2 high res. images.
Location : Manipur

Habitat: epiphytic, wild

Altitude: 1018
Collected on 7 Nov 2022

Gastrochilus obliquus var. suavis (Seidenf.) Z.H.Tsi

This looks like Gastrochilus acutifolius which is known to be found in Manipur.

This is either Gastrochilus acutifolius or G. dasypogon.

References:
POWO and Link Catalogue of Life The Plant List Ver.1.1 WCSP IPNI BSI Flora of India checklist India Biodiversity Portal Bhutan Biodiversity Portal Wikipedia IOSPE photos Orchid tree Flowers of India

Updated on May 24, 2025

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