Cleisostoma sagittiforme Garay 1972 SECTION Cleisostoma Photo by Manorot Tangsaveepha Copyright ©, and the Butterfly and Orchids Photo Gallery

Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

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Common Name The Arrow-Shaped Cleisostoma

Flower Size 1/4" [6 mm]

A small sized, hot to warm growing, monopodial epiphyte plant with thick, fleshy leaves occuring in Assam India, eastern Himalayas, Bhutan, Sikkim, Southern China and Thailand at elevations of 960 to 1000 meters that likes hot to warm temps and a wood mount with a short stem enveloped by leaf sheaths and carrying distichous, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the spring on a basal to axillary, branched, 5.6" to 10.2" [14 to 26 cm] long, descending, few flowered, inflorescence that has successive opening flowers.

Synonyms Cleisostoma belophorum (Rchb.f.) Garay 1972; Ormerodia belophora (Rchb.f.) Szlach 2003; Ormerodia sagittata (King & Pantl.) Szlach 2003; Sarcanthus belophorus Rchb.f. 1883; Sarcanthus sagittatus King & Pantl. 1897

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Dansk Botannisk Arkiv Orchid Genera in Thailand Cleisostoma Bl. Seidenfaden 1975; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 as Sarcanthus linearlobata drawing; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002 as Cleisostoma linearlobatum

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