Cleisostoma linearilobatum (Seidenf. & Smitinand) Garay 1972 SECTION Cleisostoma Photo by © Donald Tan

Drawing and Photo Photos by © Peter O'Byrne and the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Rernz Herbaria Website.

Common Name The Linear-Lobed Cleisostoma - In China Ge Ju Lan

Flower Size .17 to .23" [4 to 6 mm]

Found in the Chinese Himalayas, Assam, the eastern Himalayas, Thailand and Malaysia in broad leaved evergreen forests on tree trunks in shade at elevations of 500 to 2000 meters as a small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with a stem enveloped by leaf bearing sheaths and carrying distichous, unequally bilobed apically, linear, becoming conduplicate below into the base leaves that blooms in the spring through summer on a lateral, 5.6" to 8" [14 to 20 cm] long, paniculate, glabrous, laxly many flowered inflorescence with 3 distant, tubular bracts and ovate acute floral bracts.

Synonyms Ormerodia linearilobata (Seidenf. & Smitinand) Szlach. 2003; *Sarcanthus linearilobatus Seidenf. & Smitinand 1965

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Crib 2001 drawing/photo; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 4 2009 drawing/photo fideFlora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing ok; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 9 2012 photo fide

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