Gastrochilus sp. for ID

[raju das]

Dear all,
I am little bit confused about these two species. They look like
Gastrochilus sp. But the colour and shape is little different with
each other. They were recorded from two different localities. Please
help me to identify them.

Regards

Raju Das
Research Fellow
Nature’s Foster

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Raju Das
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[Pankaj Kumar]

This WAS Gastrochilus inconspicuus (Hook.f.) Kuntze distributed from
Himalaya to Bangladesh, but recently it was shifted to another genera,
Luisiopsis inconspicua (Hook.f.) Sath.Kumar & P.C.S.Kumar, Rheedea 15:
48 (2005), by my grandboss Dr. Sathish Kumar at TBGRI.
I believe this shifting to Luisiopsis is correct and used this name in
my PhD thesis too but Kew doesnt follow this.

Gastro means swollen like a tummy :), chilus is the part of the
labellum. Luisiopsis refers to "resembling Luisia" mainly in leaves
which are cylindrical.

This is one of the most common Gastrochilus in India, widespread
through out till the base of Himalaya, even within himalayan region
along river valleys, it is very abundant.

Regards
Pankaj

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[Smita Raskar]

Thanks for sharing beautiful orchid Raju :):)

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:36 AM, raju das <dasr...@gmail.com> wrote:

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