Cleisostoma sororium (J.J.Sm.) Garay 1972 SECTION Cleisostoma
Drawing of Flowers and Inflorescence
Plant and Flowers Photo 1st JB Comber all others © Drawing and photos by Peter O'Byrne the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Rernz Herbaria Website.
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Common Name The Closely Related Cleisostoma
Flower Size .32" [8 mm]
Found in the Molucca Islands in montane forests at elevations of 900 to 1550 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte or on limestone boulders as a lithophyte with a spreading, slightly compressed stem carrying horizontally spreading, strap-shaped, unequally bilobed apically, rounded lobes, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the later winter and early spring on a lateral, opposite the leaf in mid stem, horizontally spreading, to 14" [35 cm] long, paniculate, 4 to 7 branched, often with secondary branches, with the main branch being 2 to 4" [5 to 10 cm] long, with up to successively 2 to 5, 30 flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms *Sarcanthus sororius J.J.Sm. 1917
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Malesian Orchid Jopurnal Vol 7 2011 drawing/photo fide
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