Species Information - Cleisostoma litoreum

Cleisostoma litoreum (Schltr.) Garay, Bot. Mus. Leafl. 23, 4 (1972) 172

Type:

Synonyms:

• Sarcanthus litoreus Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 1 (1913) 990
  - Type: Schlechter 19960 (holo B, lost; iso L)

Basionym: Sarcanthus litoreus

Epiphytic, pendulous, up to 45 cm long. Roots filiform, flexuose, glabrous. Stems densely leafy, covered with densely rugulose leaf-sheaths, 0.6 cm diam. Leaves erect-patent, strap-shaped, unequally and obtusely bilobulate, somewhat carnose, 11-17 cm long, near the middle 1.5-1.7 cm long. Inflorescence pendulous, slender pedunculate, unbranched, rather laxly 15-20-flowered, as long as or shorter than the leaves. Floral bracts deltoid, acute, much shorter than the ovary. Flowers glabrous. Sepals patent, elliptic, obtuse, 0.4 cm long. Lateral sepals oblique. Petals obliquely oblong, obtuse, clearly shorter than the sepals, 0.35 cm long. Lip 3-lobed, almost as long as the petals, lateral lobes erect, obliquely rhombic, along the upper margin sublobulate, mid-lobe oblong, obtuse, clearly longer; spur slightly recurved, conical, obtuse, inside dorsally with a short trilobulate callus, inside the throat in front with a lamella. Anther ovate-cucullate, subacuminate, base subcordate; pollinia globose, stipe thin, towards the pollinia a little widened, viscidium minute, orbicular. Ovary-cylindrical, glabrous, 0.5 cm long. (After Schlechter, 1911-1914, as Sarcanthus litoreus Schltr.).

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