Thrixspermum denticulatum Schltr. 1905 SECTION Thrixspermum Photo courtesy of Wolfgang H. Bandisch. Photo by Peter O'Byrne Copyright © 1998, 1999 All rights reserved.
Common Name The Toothed Thrixspermum
Flower Size 1 1/4" [3.2 cm]
A monopodial epiphyte found in Papua and New Guinea in lowland forests at elevations around 60 to 500 meters as a miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte suspended from mossy tree branches in dense rainforests with short, slightly flattened, unbranched stems enveloped completely by leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying erect-patent to patent, oblong to oblong-ligulate, obtuse, minutely and unequally bilobulate, slightly contracted basally, glabrous, somewhat coriaceous leaves that blooms in the summer on an axillary, 4 1/4 to 5 3/4" [11 to 14 cm] long, many [20] flowered inflorescence with 1 to 2, successively opening flowers at a time produced on a congested, extending rachis over several months with large , distichous, rather lax, bilaterally flattened, ovate, subacute floral bracts that are shorter than the ovary and ephemeral, fleshy, wide opening flowers.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1985; Lowland Orchids of of Papua New Guinea Peter O'Byrne 1994 drawing/photo fide; Flora Malesia Orchids of New Guinea Vol V 2008
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