Cleisostoma beccarii (Schltr.) Garay 1972
Plant Photos by © Shiva Ramli and The Wild Orchids in Sumatra Website
Common Name Becarri's Cleisostoma [Italian Botanist 1900's]
Flower Size .24" [6 mm]
Found in Sumatra at elevations around 300 to 400 meters as a medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with a mostly erect, non-branched, leafy, zig-zag stem enveloped by leaf sheath bases carrying strap-shaped, unequally and obtusely bilobed apically, tough and fleshy leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect to spreading, branched, peduncle slender, terete, to 3.6" [9 cm] long, 10" [25 cm] long, laxly, many flowered inflorescence with triangular, much shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
This species is close to C saggitatum but it differs in the larger flowers, more acute sepals, shorter lip side lobes and a more triangular lip epichile.
Synonyms *Sarcanthus beccarii Schltr. 1921
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001;
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