Thrixspermum congestum (F.M.Bailey) Dockrill 1967

SECTION Dendrocolla

Plant and Flowers Photos courtesy of André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website

Common Name The Congested Thrixspermum - The Cupped Hairseed

Flower Size .6" [1.4 cm]

Found in New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Northern Territories and Queensland Australia, New Caledonia and Vanuatu in lowland forests at elevations of 10 to 450 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with an elongate, terete, rather rigid stems enveloped by striate leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying ligulate, obliquely and obtusely bilobulate leaves that blooms in the winter and summer on an arect-patent, 5.4 to 8.8" [14 to 22 cm] long, densely several flowered inflorescence with lanceolate-subulate floral bracts that are shorter than the ovaries and carrying successively opening flowers

Synonyms *Cleisostoma congestum F.M.Bailey 1895; Thrixspermum adenotrichum Schltr. 1913

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1914/1985; Orchids of Vanuatu Lewis & Cribb 1989; The Orchids of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville Lewis & Cribb 1991 drawing fide; Native Orchids of New Caledonia Societe Neo-Caledonnienne d'Orchidophilie 1995; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006; Australian Orchid Review Vol 72 No 1 2007 photo; Flora Malesia Orchids of New Guinea Vol V 2008;

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