Thrixspermum pensile Schltr. 1911 SECTION Dendrocolla

Plant and Flowers in situ in Indonesia Photos by © James Comber and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria site

Common Name or Meaning The Hanging Thrixspermum - In China Chui Zhi Bai Dian Lan

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in Taiwan, Thailand, Java, Sumatra and Borneo in lowland forests on tree trunks at elevations of 500 to 600 meters as a medium to large sized, hot, pendent growing epiphyte with a pendulous, compressed, leafy throughout stem carrying elliptic, thick, slightly fleshy, conduplicate towards the base, acute leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on an axillary, .4 to .8" [1 to 2 cm] long, few flowered, short lived, inflorescence with persistent, not distichous, ovate-triangular floral bracts

Synonyms Aporum pendulicaule (Hayata) Rauschert 1983; Dendrobium pendulicaule Hayata 1914; Thrixspermum pendulicaule (Hayata) Schltr. 1919

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 5 2010; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 photo ok plant only; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 photo fide

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