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Orchid Species: Cleisostoma koeteiense
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Cleisostoma koeteiense is an orchid species identified by (Schltr.) Garay in 1972.
ORIGIN: Found in Kalimantan and Sabah Borneo in in riverine, lowland and hill forests at elevations of sea-level to 1000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a suberect, branched stem carrying patent, strap-shaped, stiff, leathery, unequally bilobed apically, lobules rounded, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the spring and fall on an axillary, arching, descending to pendulous, usually paniculate, 0 to 3 branched, usually in the distal half, elongating during flowering, green sometimes with brown marks, [9 to 37 cm] long, to 70 flowered inflorescence with to 10 flowers open at any one time.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.2 to 0.32 inches [5 to 8 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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