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Inflorescence

Plant and Flower Photo courtesy of Botanická zahrada a arboretum Mendelova zemedelská a lesnická univerzita v Brne, Brno, Czech

Common Name The Spike Shaped Flower Raceme Cleisostoma - In China Da Ye Ge Ju Lan

Flower Size 1/2" [1.2 cm]

Found in Assam India, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Yunnan province of China, Myanamar, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam in open forests on trees at elevations 600 to 2150 meters as an erect or pendulous, miniature to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a stout leaf stem carrying coriaceous, broadly lorate, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the spring on an axillary, ascending, slender, 12" [30 cm] long, paniculate, 8 to 14 branched, successively few, many flowered inflorescence with a few distant sheaths and broad, short floral bracts.

Synonyms Aerides racemiferum Wall. ex Hook. 1890; Cleisostoma chrysomelas (Rchb. f.) Garay 1972 ; *Saccolabium racemiferum Lindl. 1833; Sarcanthus chrysomelas Rchb. f. 1869; Sarcanthus lorifolius Parish ex Hook. f. 1890; Sarcanthus manlinensis Guillaumin 1956; Sarcanthus pallidus Lindl. 1840; Sarcanthus racemiferum (Lindl.) Rchb. f. 1864; Sarcanthus yunnanensis Schltr. 1919

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Plantarum Vol 22 Hooker 1893 as Sarcanthus lorifolius drawing ok; A Century of Indian Orchids Vol 5 Hooker 1895 as Sarcanthus pallidus drawing ok; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/95 as Sarcanthus chrysomelas; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995 as Sarcanthus lorifolius; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 as Sarcanthus pallidus drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 as Sarcanthus racemifer drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Sarcanmthus racemifer; AOS Bulletin VOl 51 No 6 1982 drawing; Lindleyana Vol 15 No 4 2000; Beautiful Orchids of Nepal Rajbhandari & Bhattarai 2001; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 4 2009 drawing/photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos ok; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 9 2012 photo fide

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