Cleisomeria pilosulum (Gagnep.) Seidenf. & Garay 1972
Plant and Flowers Photos courtesy of Peter O'Byrne, Jaap Vermeulen, André Schuiteman and Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website
Common Name or Meaning The Very Hairy Cleisomeria [refers to the rhachis and the backs of the sepals]
Flower Size
Found in Cambodia, Laos and Thailand at elevations around 300 to 400 meters as a miniature sized, monopodial epiphyte with a short, erect stem carrying a few, strap-shaped, conduplicate, acute, basally clasping leaves that blooms on an axillary, through the old leafsheaths, pendant, 2.4" [6 cm] long, densely many flowered inlflorescnece with the pubescent flowers all in the apical third.
Synonyms *Cleisostoma pilosulum Gagnep. 1932; Saccolabium pilosulum (Gagnep.) Tang & F.T.Wang 1951
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 as Sarcanthus sp TS 4785
