Cleisostoma filiforme (Lindley) Garay 1972 SECTION Pilearia [Lindl.] Seiden. 1975
Another Angle Photo by © Timothy Choltco
Plant and Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Dale and Deni Borders
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Common Name The Thread-Shaped Cleisostoma
Flower Size 1/2" [1.2 cm]
This pendulous growing species is from the Chinese Himalayas, Assam, Eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Sikkim, Myanamar, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam as a small to large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte and has a pendulous, terete, internoded stem carrying semi-terete, distant, elongate, filiform, cylindric, acuminate leaves blooming in the summer and fall on a curved, 6 to 10" [15 to 25 cm] long, racemose, laxly several to many [30] flowered inflorescence with minute lanceolate bracts.
Synonyms *Saccolabium filiforme Lindley 1859; Saccolabium luisioides Gagnep. 1950; Saccolabium roseum Lindl. 1859; *Sarcanthus filiformis Lindl. 1842
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995 as Sarcanthus filiformis; Orchid Flora Of Kamrup District Assam Iswar Chandra Barua 2001; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002 AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 10 1958 drawingas Sarcanthus filiformis; Orchid Genera in Thailand Cleisostoma Seidenfaden 1975; AOS Bulletin Vol 51 No 6 1982 drawing; Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Maountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009
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