Ceratostylis philippinensis Rolfe 1905

Plant and Flowers Photo by Eric Hunt, plant grown by OrchidMania

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Common Name The Philippine Ceratostylis

Flower Size 3/8" [1 cm]

, This miniature sized, warm to hot growing epiphytic plant, has nice small terete psuedobulb enveloped by sheaths and has a solitary, terete, fleshy, linear leaf, it flowers from the dry, brown sheaths at the base of the psuedobulb and grows into dense mats. It is freeflowering in almost all seasons with solitary, fragrant flowers arising basally on a new growth with a .4" [1 cm] long inflorescence enveloped by sheaths , and comes from the Philippines in montane forests at elevations of 700 to 2100 meters. It may be mounted in a wood slat basket or on cork and is an easy plant to grow.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Orchidaceae of German Papua New Guinea Schlechter 1985; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003