Cleisostoma arietinum (Rchb. f.) Garay 1972 SECTION Mitriformes Seiden 1975
Flower Closeup Photos courtesy of Jay Pfahl
Common Name The Bent Cleisostoma
Flower Size 1/4" [6 mm]
Found in NE India, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Malaysia at elevations around 500 to 600 meters as a miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with a short, monopodial stem carrying several, distichous, terete, basally articulated to the stem leaves and blooms on an axillary, sometimes branched inflorescence that is to 4" [to 10 cm] long and has several to many tiny flowers.
Synonyms Echioglossum arietinum (Rchb.f.) Szlach. 2003; Saccolabium kunstleri [King & Pantl.] Ridley 1907; Sarcanthus arietinus Rchb.f. 1869; Sarcanthus kunstleri King & Pantl. 1897; Sarcanthus recurvus Rolfe ex Downe 1925; Sarcanthus semisptatus King & Pantl. ?
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 as Sarcanthus recurvus drawing fide; Orchid Genera in Thailand Cleisostoma Seidenfaden 1975; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Wood & Seidenfaden 1992 drawing/photo ok
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