Cleisostoma quinquefidum (Lindl.) Garay 1972
Photos by © Roy & Margaret Mackay
TYPE Drawing of Sarcanthus robustus by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Drawing by © E. Delile and The Plant Illustration Website
Common Name The Five Loyal Cleisostoma
Flower Size
Found in New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago at elevations around 10 to 350 meters as a small to medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with a thick, stout, densely leafy stem carrying erect-spreading to subspreading, broadly ligulate, unequally and obtusely bilobed apically, clear, thickly coriaceous leaves that blooms in the fall on a paniculate, elongate, to 20" [50 cm] long, few bracted, many flowered inflorescence
Schlechter states that the sepals and petals are yellow with a broad brown-red margin and the lip is white with violet markings or as in the case of C robustus, yellow-green with pale brown margined segments and the lip is white with red-violet longitudinal stripes.
Synonyms Carteretia paniculata A.Rich. 1833; Cleisostoma micholitzii Kraenzl. 1894; Cleisostoma schlechteri Garay 1972; Doritis paniculata (A.Rich.) Benth. & Hook.f. 1883; Gastrochilus quinquefidus (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Saccolabium paniculatum (A.Rich.) Schltr. 1905; *Saccolabium quinquefidum Lindl. 1843; Sarcanthus quinquefidus (Lindl.) Schltr. 1913; Sarcanthus robustus Schltr. 1913
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913 as Sarcanthus quinquefidus; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913 as Sarcanthus robustus drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 22 1329 - 1392 Brieger 1989; Orchids of Papua New Guinea Millar 1999 as Cleisostoma robustus not = Sarcanthus robustus = Cleisostoma quinquefidum photo fide;
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