Thrixspermum trichoglottis
Thrixspermum trichoglottis is a monopodial orchid in the subfamily Epidendroideae. It is widespread across the eastern Himalayas, Yunnan, Indochina, the Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Malaysia and western Indonesia.[1][2][3][4][5]
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| (unranked): | Monocots |
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| Subtribe: | Aeridinae |
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| Species: | T. trichoglottis |
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| Thrixspermum trichoglottis (Hook.f.) Kuntze | |
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Description
Flower
Morphologies that have been observed in Pasoh Forest Reserve, Malaysia:
- pseudobulb absent
- monopodial
- leaf equally bi-lobulate (young leaves somehow unequal)
- leaves 15 mm x 65 mm, thin and fleshy
- stem sheathed with internode, 1 cm
- stem mildly branched
- rooting throughout, rhizome heavily branched
- inflorescence 1-2 flowers, with a long bract about 10 cm long, scale like
- lateral sepal unevenly rhomboid, 4 x 7 mm
- dorsal sepal elliptic, 2 x 6 mm
- lip 7 x 6 mm with only one lobe
- pubescent at both face of the lobe, with fleshy acute tip
- yellow-orange spots on the outer surfaces near the lip tip
- column small, 3 x 4 mm
- color dimmer than petals and sepals
- pollinia white
References
- Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- Flora od China v 25 p 469, 同色白点兰 tong se bai dian lan, Thrixspermum trichoglottis (J. D. Hooker) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 682. 1891.
- Huda, M.K. (2007). An updated enumeration of the family Orchidaceae from Bangladesh. The Journal of the Orchid Society of India 21: 35-49.
- Wood, J.J., Beaman, T.E., Lamb, A., Lun, C.C. & Beaman, J.H. (2011). The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu 2: 1-726. Natural history publications (Borneo), Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia.
- Nordin, F.A. & al. (2012). Notes on new records of Orchidaceae at Fraser's Hill, Pahang, Malaysia. Folia Malaysiana 13: 53-80.
- Seidenfaden, G. and Wood, J.J. (1992). The Orchids of Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore. ISBN 87-85215-24-4
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