金塔隔距兰(植物研究)
Cleisostoma filiforme (Lindl.) Garay in Bot. Mus. Leafl. Harvard Univ. 23 (4): 171. 1972; Seidenf. in Dansk Bot. Ark. 29 (3): 55. 1975; H. Hara et al., Enum. Flow. Nepal 1: 35. 1978; Z. H. Tsi in Bull. Bot. Res. 3 (4): 82. 1983; Seidenf. in Opera Bot. 114: 395. 1992; Averyanov, Iden. Guide Vietnam. Orch.: 384, 1994. ——Sarcanthus filiformis Lindl. in Edw., Bot. Reg. 28 (Misc.): 61. 1842; Hook. f. in Bot. Mag. 78: t. 4639. 1852, et Fl. Brit. Ind. 6: 66. 1890; King et Pantl. in Ann. Bot. Gard. Calcutta 8: 240, pl. 319. 1898; Rolfe in Not. Bot. Gard. Edinb. 8: 24. 1913; S. Y. Hu in Quart. J. Taiwan 28 (1, 2): 153. 1975. ——C. flagelliforme (Rolfe ex Dowine) auct. non Garay: 海南植物志 4: 261. 1977.
Epiphytic on tree trunks in broad-leaved evergreen forests; 400-1000 m. SW Guangxi, Hainan, S Yunnan [NE India, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam].
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Plants pendulous. Stems more than 60 cm, rather slender, 3-4 mm in diam., branched or unbranched, laxly many leaved, internodes 4-6 cm. | ||
Leaves terete, to 33 cm × 2-2.5 mm, slender, fleshy, obtuse. | ||
Inflorescences 1 or 2, lateral, usually opposite to leaves, shorter than or sometimes nearly as long as leaves, branched or unbranched, densely many flowered; floral bracts narrowly ovate-lanceolate, ca. 2 mm. Flowers opening widely, sepals and petals yellowish green, with purplish brown stripes, lip with white lateral lobes and purple-red mid-lobe, column yellow; pedicel and ovary 4-5 mm, slender. Dorsal sepal ovate-elliptic, cymbiform, ca. 4 × 2 mm, obtuse; lateral sepals suboblong, ca. 4 × 2.5 mm, base adnate to column foot. Petals suboblong, much smaller than sepals, obtuse; lip lateral lobes erect, deltoid, obtuse and incurved, proximal margin inflexed; inflexed part square; mid-lobe sagittate-triangular, ca. 2 mm, with 2 basal backward narrow lobules, adaxially with longitudinal ridges triangularly thickened halfway; spur broadly conic, dorsiventrally compressed, concave, ca. 3 × 2 mm, interior inconspicuously septate, with a back wall callus; callus nearly stellate, triangularly thickened at center, base densely papillate-hairy. Column ca. 2 mm; anther cap elongate and triangular toward apex; stipe ovate-lanceolate, apical margin revolute; viscidium suborbicular, small. Fl. Sep-Oct. 2n = 38. | ||