FLORA OF VIETNAM

Plants of Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park

Fam. Orchidaceae

Bulbophyllum ambrosia (Hance) Schltr.

Vietnam, Quang Binh Prov., Minh Hoa Distr., Thuong Hoa Municipality, Yen Hop village, about 1 km to NWW of Ban On village (17º40'21''N, 105º58'00''E). Primary closed evergreen broad-leaved and coniferous lowland forest (with Dacrydium elatum) along rocky ridge composed with solid marble-like highly eroded stratified crystalline limestone at elevation 550-650 m a.s.l. Creeping epiphyte on high tree (Quercus sp., Pittosporum sp., Myrsine seguinei, Osmanthus sp., Rutaceae, Dacrydium elatum, Aglaia sp., Knema sp.). Flowers whitish with pink tint and purple veins on tepals. Very common.

No HAL 5994 21 January 2005. Photo.

Collectors: L.Averyanov, P.K.Loc, P.V.The, A.Averyanova, N.T.Vinh, N.Q.Vinh, N.T.Binh.

All photos © L. Averyanov