FLORA OF VIETNAM
Orchidaceae
Gastrochilus acutifolius(Lindl.) Kuentze

Son La Prov., Yen Chau Distr., Muong Lum Municipality, Na Hat village, around point 21°00′37″N 104°30′06″E.

Broad-leaved (and former coniferous forest with Calocedrus rupestris) evergreen forest on steep slopes and on tops of ridge composed with rocky crystalline solid marble-like highly eroded limestone at elev. 900 m a.s.l.

Epiphyte in wet shady stream valley. Tepals yellow with brown-purple marks. Lip white. Not common.

HAL 9537 05 Nov. 2006 Photo.
Coll.: Nguyen Tien Hiep, L.Averyanov, Pham Van The.