!Cleisostoma sagittiforme Garay 1972 SECTION Cleisostoma

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Common Name The Arrow-Shaped Cleisostoma

Flower Size 1/4" [6 mm]

A small sized, hot to warm growing, monopodial epiphyte plant with thick, fleshy leaves occuring in Assam India, eastern Himalayas, , Southern China and Thailand at elevations of 960 to 1000 meters that likes hot to warm temps and a wood mount with a short stem enveloped by leaf sheaths and carrying distichous, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the spring on a basal to axillary, branched, 5.6" to 10.2" [14 to 26 cm] long, descending, few flowered, inflorescence that has successive opening flowers.

CAUTION!!!!Said to be a synonum of C linearlobatum and they are very close, I await better references before I combine them

Synonyms Cleisostoma belophorum (Rchb.f.) Garay 1972; Ormerodia belophora (Rchb.f.) Szlach 2003; Ormerodia sagittata (King & Pantl.) Szlach 2003; Sarcanthus belophorus Rchb.f. 1883;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; ; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002 as Cleisostoma linearlobatum

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