Galeola lindleyana

Ormerod, Paul, Kurzweil, Hubert & Watthana, Santi, 2021, Annotated List of Orchidaceae for Myanmar, Phytotaxa 481 (1), pp. 1-262 : 133

Galeola lindleyana (Hook.f. & Thomson) Rchb.f., Xenia Orchid. 2: 78, 1865

Basionym: Cyrtosia lindleyana Hook. f. & Thomson in J.D.Hooker, Ill. Himal. Pl.: t. 22, 1855.

Specimens examined:— KACHIN. Putao District : 2135 m, 5 Aug 1926, Kingdon-Ward 7249 ( K) ; northeastern part: 2135 m, Jun 1925, Forrest 26846 ( E, K) ; Myitkyina District : 915−2380 m, 15 Jul 1919, Farrer 1107 ( E) ; same loc., 2135−2440 m, Jun 1931, Forrest 29734 ( E) . Also reported from Chin State by Kress et al. (2003: 79), but we have not seen any material from this area.

Distribution:— Northern India, the Himalayas, Myanmar, China, Taiwan and western Indonesia (Sumatra).

Notes:— Averyanov (2011: 35) returned this species to Cyrtosia because unlike true Galeola it lacks ‘the climbing vine habit, aerial roots at nodes and drying dehiscent fruit that is rather a capsule than a berry’. This species and G. falconeri Hook. f. differ from other Cyrtosia species in their stout, semi-cylindric (not slender, clavate) column with two basal papillose tufts. They perhaps deserve infrageneric recognition within Cyrtosia .