Gastrochilus obliquus (Lindl.) Kunze 1891

Description:  epiphytic growing miniature orchid species, endemic to the Himalayas, India (Sikkim), Bhutan, Myanmar (formerly Burma), Thailand, Cambodia, South China, Laos and Vietnam in dense forests at elevations of 800 to 1400 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing orchid with a very short stem carrying persistent, linear-oblong to obovate-oblong, bifid, bright green leaves, and blooms in the fall and winter on an axillary, drooping, subcorymbose, racemose, to 8 flowered inflorescence with basal tubular sheaths and broad, obtuse floral bracts and carrying fragrant, long-lived flowers.

Photorights: Sok Vichea 2014

• Size:  Stems 1-2 cm, stout, with 3-5 leaves. Leaves nearly basal, distichous; blade oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 8-20 × 1.7-6 cm, slightly fleshy or leathery, apex obtuse and unequally 2-lobed. Inflorescences 1-4, from base of stem, subumbellate, often 5-8-flowered; peduncle straight, 1-2 cm, stout, flowers 2.5cm
• Collector/Witnesses:  sok vichea
• Year Collected:  2014
• Growing Media:  wood/pot
• Flowering Period:  November
• Color:  yellow sepals and petals and white lip, all with brownish purplish spots.
• Water:  1 – 2 time daily
• Light:  partial shade
• Temperature:  20 – 31°C