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Orchid Species: Cleisostoma parishii
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Cleisostoma parishii is an orchid species identified by (Hook.f.) Garay in 1972.
ORIGIN: Found in China and Myanmar on tree trunks in broad leafed evergreen forests at elevations up to 1000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a stout stem enveloped by leaf bases and carrrying several to many, distichous, larate, slightly fleshy to thickly coriaceous, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the spring on an axillary, much longer than the leaves, to 12 [to 30 cm] long, arising from the lower nodes of the stem, sometimes branched, sparsely many flowered inflorescence.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.2 inches [5 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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