Cleisostoma minax (Rchb.f.) Seidenf. 1995 SECTION Echioglossum [Bl.] Seiden 1975
Closer Side Flower View Photo courtesy of Ian Chung
Common Name or Meaning The
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found only in Java at elevations around 750 to 1500 meters as a medium to large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with pendulous stems carrying many, thick, fleshy, narrowing to an oblique apex with a sharp tooth underneath leaves that blooms in the spring on a downward pointing, 1.6 to 2.4" [4 to 6 cm] long, racemose, 20 to 30 flowered inflorescence. This species is often given as a synonym of C javanicum but differs only in the flower which has the sidelobes of the lip and the apical lobe of the lip being simple and not forked.
Synonyms *Echioglossum minax Rchb.f. 1860; Raciborskanthos minax (Rchb.f.) Szlach. 1995
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 as Cleisostoma javanica
