Trichoglottis bataanensis Ames 1905 Photo by © PhilsDC and Orchid Talk Website

Common Name The Bataan Trichoglottis [A Province in the Philippines]

Flower Size 1/4" [1 cm]

Found in the Philippines at elevations around 200 meters as a medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with a pendulous, monopodial stem enveloped by the bases of the leaf sheaths and carrying leathery, linear-lancolate leaves and blooms in the winter on a short to 1.4" [7mm] long, to 6 flowered inflorescence that arise from the leaf axils and have very fragrant flowers

Synonyms Cleisostoma subviolaceum (Llanos) Rchb. f. 1862; Synptera subviolacea Llanos 1851; Trichoglottis subviolacea (Llanos) Merr. 1918

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 photo ok; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo not = T rosea; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 3 2004 photo as T subviolacea; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 1 2008 photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 errata for Vol 1;

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