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Orchid Species: Cheirostylis clibborndyeri
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Cheirostylis clibborndyeri is an orchid species identified by S.Y.Hu & Barretto in 1976.
ORIGIN: Found in Hong Kong China on damp mossy rocks in shade along the sides of swiftly flowing streams at elevations of 400 to 500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature sized, hot growing terrestrial, with a worm-like, fleshy, olive green, simple to branching, internoded stem carrying 3 to 4, crowded or well spaced, ovate, acute, sage greeen wiith a satin-like sheen variegated with a lighter green band along the mid-rib, marked with deeper green veins, round below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late winter and earlier spring on a terminal, brownish green, 4.8 to 6 [12 to 15 cm] long, 5 to 6 flowered inflorescence with cucllate, oblong, acute floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.2 to 0.24 inches [5 to 6 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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