Cleisostoma capricorne [Ridley]Garay 1972 SECTION Complicatum Seiden. 1975

Photo by Gary Yong Gee and his Orchid Photo Website

Another Flower? Plant seems wrong

Photo by Jay Pfahl

Drawing Drawing by Seidenfaden

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Common Name The Goat-Horned Cleisostoma [refers to the strongly recurved leaves, a diagnostic character]

Flower Size 3/8" [8 mm]

Found in Thailand and Myanmar on karst limestone hills at elevations around 550 meters as a mini-miniature sized, monopodial, hot to warm growing epiphyte occuring on stunted trees or as a lithophyte on the limestone beneath with a freely branching stem enveloped by imbricating old leaf sheaths carrying towards the apex, distichous, terete, strongly recurved [goat horn like], basally grooved leaves that blooms in the summer on an axillary, horizontal to suberect, unbranched, [21 to 55 cm] long, to 20 flowered inflorescence with ovate, acute floral bracts and up to 5 flowers open at any one time.

The leaf shape [crucial] cannot be seen well in the first photo and the photo is not good enough for an exact determination but this represents the closest I can find to the real C capricorne. I await more photos to be certain. The second photo by Pfahl has the flower shape but the leaves are wrong. The Drawing most likely is correct.

Synonyms *Ascochilus capricornis Ridl. 1920; Raciborskanthos capricornis (Ridl.) Szlach. 1995; Sarcanthus capricornis (Ridl.) Holttum 1947; Sarcochilus capricornis hort. ?

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Gard. Bull. Singapore 11:287 Holttum 1947 as Sarcanthus capricornis; ; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1964 as Sarcanthus capricorne drawing fide; Botanisk Tidsskrift Bild 70 Hft 1 Contributions to the flora of Thailand VI Seidenfaden 1975; 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; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing good; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001 as Raciborskanthos capricornis drawing good; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 9 2012 photo drawing good

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