Trichosalpinx pergrata (Ames) Luer 1983
SUBGENUS Tubella Luer 1986 Photo by © Bogarin and The Epidendra Orchid Website Side View of Flower Photo by © Daniel Jimenez Another Flower Photo by J & L Orchids and their J & L Orchids Website Common Name The Very Pleasing Trichosalpinx
Flower Size .15 to .2" [3 to 5 mm]
Found in Costa Rica and Panama and Colombia at elevations of 1000 to 2700 meters as a small sized, warm to cold growing epiphtye with an erect, slender ramicaul enveloped by 4 to 7 ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on a very short fascile of successive single flowers arising from near the apex of the ramicaul.
Synonyms Pleurothallis falcipetala Schltr. 1924; *Pleurothallis pergrata Ames 1923; Trichosalpinx falcipetala (Schltr.) Luer 1983; Tubella pergrata (Ames) Archila 2000
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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