Ceratostylis ampullacea Kraenzl. 1893
Plant in Situ Photo By © David Kuehn
Common Name The Vein Like Ceratostylis [refers to the sheaths]
Flower Size .2" [3mm]
Found in Thailand, Malaysia, Borneo and Sumatra in low moss and scrub in lower and upper montane forestsat elevations of 500 to 2500 meters as a small to medium sized hot to cool growing epiphyte with very close set stems enveloped basally by 3 to 4 sheaths and carrying almost terete, shallowly grooved above leaves that blooms on a fascile of very short, single flowered inflorescence with the flower held against the mid leaf
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2002
