Ceratostylis subulata Blume 1825 SECTION Ceratostylis Photo courtesy of Lourens Grobler ©

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Common Name The Terete Ceratostylis [refers to the leaves]

Flower Size .25" [5 mm]

Found in Thailand, Burma, Penninsular Malaysia, Vietnam, Borneo, Java, Sumatra, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, the Philippines and Vanuatu high up in primary montane forests at elevations of 200 to 1700 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte on mossy trees in good shade with closely tufted, terete, dark green stems enveloped basally by dry, membraneous sheaths and carrying an almost terete, broadly grooved on one side leaf tapering from the base to the apex that blooms in the early spring arising from the scarious basal bracts on very short, single flowered inflorescence with spidery hairs .

Synonyms Appendicula teres Griff. 1851; Ceratostylis cepula Rchb.f. 1857; Ceratostylis malaccensis Hook.f. 1890; Ceratostylis teres Rchb. f. 1854

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Orchids of Vanuatu Lewis & Cribb 1989; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2002; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1987; The Orchids Of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992; Flora Of Malaya Vol 1 Orchids Holttum 1958; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2002; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol III Shuiteman and de Vogel 2006; ceratsubulata.htm