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]

Thrixspermum trichoglottis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
Angiosperms
(unranked):
Monocots
Order:
Asparagales
Family:
Orchidaceae
Subfamily:
Epidendroideae
Tribe:
Vandeae
Subtribe:
Aeridinae
Genus:
Thrixspermum
Species:
T. trichoglottis
Binomial name
Thrixspermum trichoglottis
(Hook.f.) Kuntze
Synonyms[1]
  • Sarcochilus trichoglottis Hook.f.
  • Dendrocolla trichoglottis (Hook.f.) Ridl.
  • Dendrocolla alba Ridl.
  • Thrixspermum album (Ridl.) Schltr.

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
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gollark: The eeemerald green ones?
gollark: Which ones are almadines again?
gollark: It seems that either purple siyats are one of those things which don't get asked for much but can be put up and are valuable, or the market for them is doubleplusungood now.
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References
  1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. 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.
  3. Huda, M.K. (2007). An updated enumeration of the family Orchidaceae from Bangladesh. The Journal of the Orchid Society of India 21: 35-49.
  4. 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.
  5. 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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