Cleisostoma rostratum

Cleisostoma rostratum (Lindl.) Garay, Bot. Mus. Leafl. 23(4): 174 (1972).

Cleisostoma rostratum (Lindl.) Garay, Photo by Kurt Keller

its native range is S. China to Indo-China.

Latin Name: 

Cleisostoma rostratum (Lindl.) Garay

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Cleisostoma fordii Hance

Cleisostoma simondianum (Gagnep.) Garay

Saccolabium simondii Gagnep.

Sarcanthus fordii (Hance) Rolfe

Sarcanthus laosensis Guillaumin

Sarcanthus simondianus Gagnep.

Vanda recurva Hook.

Vanda rostrata G.Lodd.

Vietnamese  name:

Lan miệng kín có mỏ, Mật khẩu mũi.

English Name:

The Beaked Cleisostoma

Chinese name:

Juan Hui Ge Ju Lan - 尖喙隔距兰 .

Description: 

With a suberect, sometimes branching stem carrying many, narrowly lanceolate, coriaceous, shortly caudate apically leaves that blooms in the summer on an axillary, from the upper nodes of the stem, pendant, loosely many flowered that blooms in the summer on an axillary, pendant, from the upper nodes of the stem, 22.5 cm long, many (35 to 45) flowered infloresence.

Distribution:

Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam (Lào Cai, Hoà Bình, Khánh Hòa, Quảng Bình, Quảng Trị, Thừa Thiên Huế).

Ecological:

In shady places and rocky cliffs in primary and secondary, evergreen, broadleafed coniferous and deciduous forests at elevations of 300 to 650 m as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphtye or lithophyte.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the summer.

Flower size:

8.0 mm.

Cultivation:

Typus:

Uses: 

Rheumatism bone pain, foreign injury (whole tree). 

Reference: 

theplantlist.org

https://www.ipni.org/n/623540-1

http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:623540-1

http://www.orchidspecies.com/cleisrostratum.htm.

https://thuocdongduoc.vn/chi-cleisostoma-blume-1825

http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200028591