Cleisostoma scortechinii (Hook.f.) Garay 1972 SECTION Subulatum
Plant Photos by © Photo by Dr de Vogel from the Orchis project website
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Common Name Scortechin's Cleisostoma [Italian Minister adn Botanist in Malaysia 1800's]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Borneo, Java and Sumatra in lowland, podosol and peat swamp forests at elevations of sealevel to 600 meters as a small to medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with a stout, pendulous, apically upturned, elongate inflorescence carrying lanceolate, abruptly narrrowing near the apex, keeled below, slightly unequal apically, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the spring summer and fall on a simple to branched, pointed straight down, rigid, gradually lengthening to 16" [40 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Saccolabium scortechinii (Hook.f.) Ridl. 1907; *Sarcanthus scortechinii Hook.f. 1890
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Plantarum Vol 22 Hooker 1893 as Sarcanthus scortechni drawing ok; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1953; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 as Saracanthus scortechini drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Sarcanthus scortechinii; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv, Orchid Genera in Thailand Cleisostoma Seidenfaden 1975; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Lindleyana Vol 15 No 4 2000; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 5 2010 drawing/photo fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 9 2012 photo fide
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