Cleisomeria pilosulum (Gagnep.) Seidenf. & Garay 1972
Plant and Flowers Photos by © Ekkehard Schwadtke and his Lanta Orchid Nursery Photo Page
Plant and Flowers Photos by Peter O'Byrne, courtesy of Jaap Vermeulen, André Schuiteman and Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website
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Common Name or Meaning The Very Hairy Cleisomeria [refers to the rachis and the backs of the sepals]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Cambodia, Laos and Thailand at elevations around 300 to 400 meters as a miniature sized, hot growing, monopodial epiphyte with a short, erect stem carrying a few, strap-shaped, conduplicate, acute, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the late spring and summer on an axillary, through the old leaf sheaths, pendant, 3.6" [9 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with the pubescent flowers all in the apical third.
Synonyms *Cleisostoma pilosulum Gagnep. 1932; Saccolabium pilosulum (Gagnep.) Tang & F.T.Wang 1951
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 as Sarcanthus sp TS 4785; *Botanisk Tidsserift 67: 76-127 Contributions to the Orchid Flora of Thailand IV Seidenfaden 1972; Opera Botanica # 95 Seidenfaden 1988 drawing/photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 22 1329 - 1392 Brieger 1989 photo fide; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 photo ok; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo ok
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