Ceratostylis piepersii J.J.Sm. 1912 SECTION Ceratostylis
Photos by © Shiva Ramli and The Wild Orchids Of Sumatra Website
Common Name or Meaning Pieper's Ceratostylis
Flower Size.1" [2.5 mm]
Found in western Sumatra at elevations around 1100 meters as a small to just medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, tufted, terete, green, fleshy stems carrying a single, apical, erect, subulate, acute, fleshy leaf that blooms on .12" [3 mm] long, in a head-like fascile of many successively single inflorescence carrying sordid purple flowers with a yellow lip.
Close to C subulata but differs in the slightly shorter mentum snd lip apex.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sumatra J B Comber 2001;
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