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Orchid Species: Cleisostoma sagittatum
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Cleisostoma sagittatum is an orchid species identified by Blume in 1825.
ORIGIN: Found in Borneo, Java, Malaysia, the Philippines and Sumatra on mangroves and lower montane forests at elevations of 600 to 1700 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with very short, somtimes branched stems carrying several, v-channeled when young, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the spring on a dark, terete, 1 to 2 branched, to 18 [45 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with triangular, acute floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/4 inch [7.5 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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