Chelonistele unguiculata Carr 1935 Photo courtesy of Dr. E.F. de Vogel, André Schuiteman, and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website

Common Name or Meaning The Clawed Chelonistele

Flower Size

Found in Brunei and Sarawak, Borneo in moss forests at elevations of 1100 to 1400 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm growing epiphyte with slender, longitudinally sulcate pseudobulbs carrying, a single, apical, erct, ovate to obovate-oblong, acuminate, coriaceous, plicate, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring, summer and fall on a proteranthous, 4 to 8 flowered, erect, 5.2" [13 cm] long, racemose inflorescence.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Monographs Vol 1 De Vogel 1986; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994;