Trichoglottis lanceolaria Blume 1825 Photo by © Dian Rahardjo and her Orchid Photo Page

Another Angle Photo by © A & K Petrzelka

Common Name or Meaning The Lance-Like Trichoglottis [refers to the leaves]

Flower Size 1/4" [7mm]

Found in Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Borneo, Java and Sumatra in hill forests at elevations of 500 to 1200 meters as a large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with thin, pendulous, laxly leafed stems carrying several, varry narrowly lanceolate, unequally acuminate apically, leathery leaves that blooms in the fall on numerous, on fasciles opposite the leaves, short, mostly single to 3 flowered, inflorescence

This species and t maculata are very similar and differ mostly in the rounded apice of the sides of the midlobe.

Synonyms Saccolabium tridentatum Guillaumin 1964

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list ,IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1857; Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1862 drawing; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Wood & Seidenfaden 1992 drawing fide; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 1 2008 photo fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 4 2009; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing/photo fide;

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