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Cleisostoma

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Cleisostoma

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Cleisostoma is a genus of orchids with approximately 90 accepted species widely distributed through much of the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, China, New Guinea, and some of the islands of the Western Pacific.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassLiliopsida
  4. OrderAsparagales
  5. FamilyOrchidaceae
Native toAndaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, Caroline Is., China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Fiji, Hainan
Observations recorded3,091

General: Cleisostoma comprises about 100 species known from Sri Use: No uses have been reported for Cleisostoma

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
253
With media
176
Family
Orchidaceae
Collections
A, AMES, GH, NY, CAS, BRIT
Recorded in
Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Philippines, Indonesia, India, China, Vietnam

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Cleisostoma is a genus of orchids with approximately 90 accepted species widely distributed through much of the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, China, New Guinea, and some of the islands of the Western Pacific.

The orchid abbreviation is Cleis.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cleisostoma” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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