WorldFloraDB - Cleistes

Characteristics

Herbs, terrestrial. Roots 1–2 mm wide, sometimes with wider nodular tuberoids, frequently rather brittle. Leaves 1–3 on vegetative plants, 1(–2) centrally on flowering stems, sessile; blade oblong-lanceolate or elliptic-oblong. Inflorescences terminal,1–3-flowered; floral bracts leaflike. Flowers resupinate, erect, sessile; sepals olive-green, brown, or maroon, linear-lanceolate, apex acuminate; petals rose-pink to white, spatulate or oblanceolate, usually forming tube with lip; lip rose-pink to white, with rose or purple veins, oblanceolate, 3-lobed, middle lobe medially winged or tuberculate, central keel grooved from base to 3/4 its length; column free, white, apex lacerate, truncate; anther terminal, hinged; pollinia 2, without viscidium, soft, mealy; pollen grains in tetrads. Fruits capsules, erect, cylindric.

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Sep and lateral pet evidently unlike, the sep slender, widely spreading or distally recurved, the pet directed forward, close together over the lip; lip rather broad, ± ovate in outline, obscurely 3-lobed, the long low lateral lobes enfolding the column, the terminal lobe short, triangular; lip crested with a median ridge and with a ridged and papillate summit; column with a deflexed terminal anther; pollinia 2; perennial from a cluster of fleshy-fibrous roots, the erect stem-bearing 1 or 2 sheathing scales toward the base and a single (2) foliage lf near or above the middle; fl solitary, rarely 2. 25, W. Hemisphere, mainly trop

Life form	perennial
Growth form	herb
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Distribution

Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30001901-2
WFO ID	wfo-4000008543
COL ID	8VWB4
BDTFX ID	-
INPN ID	730986
Wikipedia (EN)	Link
Wikipedia (FR)	Link

Synonyms

Cleistes

Lower taxons

Cleistes acuminata Cleistes aphylla Cleistes brasiliensis Cleistes calantha Cleistes carautae Cleistes castaneoides Cleistes catharinensis Cleistes cipoana Cleistes costaricensis Cleistes elegantula Cleistes exilis Cleistes fragrans Cleistes grandiflora Cleistes huberi Cleistes humidicola Cleistes ionoglossa Cleistes latiplume Cleistes lenheirensis Cleistes lepida Cleistes macrantha Cleistes magnifica Cleistes mantiqueirae Cleistes miersii Cleistes nana Cleistes paludosa Cleistes parviflora Cleistes ramboi Cleistes rodeiensis Cleistes strangii Cleistes triflora Cleistes uliginosa Cleistes vinosa Cleistes batistana Cleistes elongata Cleistes abdita Cleistes pusilla Cleistes australis Cleistes gert-hatschbachiana Cleistes latipetala Cleistes libonii Cleistes liliastrum Cleistes metallina Cleistes monantha Cleistes montana Cleistes moritzii Cleistes tenuis Cleistes bella Cleistes caloptera Cleistes itatiaiae Cleistes paranaensis Cleistes paulensis Cleistes pluriflora Cleistes quadricallosa Cleistes revoluta Cleistes rodriguesii Cleistes silveirana Cleistes speciosa Cleistes unguiculata Cleistes cuatrecasasii Cleistes ayangannensis Cleistes lehmannii Cleistes unifoliata Cleistes vargasii Cleistes violascens Cleistes uribei Cleistes risaraldensis Cleistes munchiquensis Cleistes idroboi Cleistes buenaventurae Cleistes latiglossa Cleistes stricta Cleistes tamboana Cleistes angeliana Cleistes rosea

WorldFloraDB 2024

Cleistes Rich. ex Lindl.

Rosebud orchids (en)

Genus

Angiosperms > Asparagales > Orchidaceae