Cleisomeria pilosulum

 Cleisomeria pilosulum (Gagn.) Seidenf. & Garav, Bot. Tidsskr. 67(1-2): 120 (1972).

Cleisomeria pilosulum (Gagn.) Seidenf. & Garav, Photo by Dinh Quang Diep

its native range is Assam (Manipur) to Indo-China.

Latin Name: 

Cleisomeria pilosulum (Gagn.) Seidenf. & Garav

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Cleisostoma pilosulum Gagnep.

Saccolabium pilosulum (Gagnep.) Tang & F.T.Wang

Vietnamese name: 

Hàm cọp lông.

English Name:

The Very Hairy Cleisomeria (refers to the rachis and the backs of the sepals).

Description: 

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, 9 cm long, densely many flowered inflorescence with the pubescent flowers all in the apical third.

Distribution:

Assam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam (Bảo Lộc, Lâm Đồng).

Ecological:

At elevations around 300 to 400 m as a miniature sized, hot growing, monopodial epiphyte.

Flowering times:

Bloome in the late spring and summer.

Flower size:

5.0 mm

Cultivation:

Plant grows from cool to intermediate conditions with medium amounts of light. Plants should be potted in medium bark or sphagnum moss. Water everytime when the mix has just about dried.

Typus:

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- https://www.ipni.org/n/623385-1

- http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:623385-1

-  http://www.orchidspecies.com/cleispilosulum.htm.

- https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Fischer%27s%20Bulb-Leaf%20Orchid.html

- https://thuocdongduoc.vn/chi-cleisomeria-lindl-ex-g-don-1855

- https://orchids.fandom.com