Cleisostoma fuerstenbergianum Kranzl. 1908 SECTION Pilearia [Lindl.] Seiden. 1975

Photo by © Eric Hunt

Plant and Flowers in Situ Thailand

Photo by © David Kuehn

Common Name Fuerstenberg's Cleisostoma [German Count and Orchid Enthusiast late 1800's] - In China Chang Ye Ge Ju Lan

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and southern China in sparse woods at elevations of 500 to 2000 meters as a small to large sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte with an erect to arching, slender, terete stem carrying many, terete, cylindric, fleshy leaves that blooms in the spring on a lateral, unbranched to occasionally branched, 2 to 6" [5 to 15 cm] long, sparsely several to many flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Cleisostoma crucicallum (Burkill) Garay 1972; Cleisostoma flagellare (Schltr.) Garay 1972; Cleisostoma flagelliforme (Rolfe ex Downie) Garay 1972; Saccolabium crucicallus Burkill 1923; Sarcanthus crucicallus (Burkill) Seidenf. & Smitinand 1965; Sarcanthus flagellaris Schltr. 1919; Sarcanthus flagelliformis Rolfe ex Downie 1925; *Sarcanthus fuerstenbergianus (Kraenzl.) J.J.Sm. 1912; Sarcanthus geoffrayi Guillaumin 1930

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 as Sarcanthus flagelliformis drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 as Sarcanthus furstenburgiana drawing fide/photo ok; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1964 as Sarcanthus geoffrayii drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1964 as Sarcanthus crucicallus; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 corrections as Sarcanthus furstenburgiana; Dansk Botansisk Arkiv Bind 29 N. R. 2 Orchid Genera in Thailand II Cleisostoma Seidenfaden 1975 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 22 1329 - 1392 Brieger 1989; Thai Orchid Species Rakpaibulsombat 1992 as C flagelliformis photo fide; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; The Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen & Mori 1997; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; Lindleyana Vol 15 No 4 2000; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 photo hmm; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo ok; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide; Turczaninowia 16(4):26-46 NEW AND RARE ORCHIDS (ORCHIDACEAE) IN THE FLORA OF CAMBODIA AND LAOS Averyanov 2013 ; Taiwania 60(3):107-116, 2015 - New species of the genus Cleisostoma in the flora of Vietnam Averyanov, Tich and Canh; Turczaninowia 19 (3): 5–58 L. V. Averyanov, Khang Sinh Nguyen etal 2016 ; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 2 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;

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