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Nervilia concolor
Tall shield orchid is a small deciduous terrestrial orchid from tropical Asia, the Pacific and northern Australia that grows in colonies in forest and rainforest. Its key to growing is a seasonal rest: it flowers after heavy rain, then drops its flowers and produces a single broad leaf.
Nervilia concolor (known by some taxonomic authorities as Nervilia aragoana) commonly known as tall shield orchid, is a small terrestrial orchid found in South Asia and Southeast Asia and in the northern regions of Australia. It has pale green, short-lived flowers with a cream-colored or yellowish labellum and a more or less circular leaf that emerges at the base of the flowering stem after flowering.
Nervilia concolor occurs in Nepal, Bhutan, eastern India, Myanmar, Indochina, southern China, Taiwan, southern Japan, Thailand, the Malaysian region, New Guinea, the Pacific Islands, Queensland and the Northern Territory. It grows in forest, rainforest and monsoonal rainforest.
Ribbed shield orchid · Grey shield orchid · Nervilia simplex · Red shield orchid · Shield orchids
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Nervilia concolor by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
