Cleistes montana Gardner 1842 C brasilensis group Photo by © Marcelo Rodrigues Miranda and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website

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

Common Name The Montane Cleistes

Flower Size 2.6" [6.5 cm]

Found in Rio de Janiero Brazil at higher elevations as a large sized, cool growing terrestrial with an erect, somewhat sinuous stem carrying a few, small, erect-patent, ellptic-oblong, obtuse to somewhat obtuse, attenuate below into the base leaves that blooms on a terminal inflorescence.

Synonyms Pogonia montana (Gardner) Rchb.f. 1865

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I 1-12 Hoehne 1940 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Brasiliensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing ok;

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