Cleistes castaneoides Hoehne 1939 C rosea group Photo by © Lou Menzes

TYPE Drawing Drawing by © Hoehne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Part sun Cool LATE Spring EARLY Summer

Common Name The Coppery Brown Cleistes

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Brazil in grasslands as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with an erect stem enveloped by a bract and 2 to 3, small, lanceolate, acuminate basally clasping leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a short, terminal, single flowered inflorescence enveloped by a leaf-like, concave, acute floral bract

Part of the C rosea alliance

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I 1-12 Hoehne 1940 drawing fide; Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Brasiliensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide to drawing; Orchids of the Brazilian Central Plateau Menezes 2004 photos fide; Orquideas Da Chapada Diamantina Toscano and Cribb 2005 drawing ok/photo good;

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