Cleisostoma callosilobum (J.J.Sm.) Garay 1972

Plant and Flower Photos by © J.B.Comber and the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website.

Common Name The Callosed Lip Cleisostoma

Flower Size .16" [4 mm]

Found in Sumatra in fairly open, mossy montane forests at elevations of 1450 to 1900 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with a simple stem carrying strap-shaped, fleshy, tough, obtusely and unevenly bilobed apically, with a short, fleshy tooth centrally, channeled leaves that blooms in the winter on an axillary, paniculate, longer than the leaves, 7.2 to 10" [18 to 25 cm] long, 4 to 5 side branched, each 1.8 to 2.4" [4.5 to 6 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with fleshy flowers

Synonyms *Sarcanthus callosilobus J.J.Sm.1928

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide

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