Thrixspermum scopa (Rchb.f. ex Hook.f.) Holttum 1947 SECTION Thrixspermum Photo by © East Asia Flora Website

Common Name The Thin Branched Thrixspermum

Flower Size 6" [15 cm]

Found in Thailand, Malaysia and Borneo in swampy forests at eleavations around sealevel to 300 meters as a small to medium sized, hot growing epiphtye with a long, climbing stem carrying fleshy, oblong or widest near the base, bilobed and rounded apically leaves that blooms in the summer on a very variable, 2 to 8" [5 to 20 cm] long, rachis widening and bracteate, successively single flowered inflorescence,

CAUTION I am not positive about this determination so use with caution.

Synonyms *Sarcochilus scopa Rchb.f. ex Hook.f. 1890

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing ok; A Checklist Of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 5 2010; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo good

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