Trichosalpinx orbicularis (Lindl.) Luer 1983 SUBGENUS Trichosalpinx

Another Angle Photos by © Milan Vágner

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

Another Plant Photo courtesy of Patricia HardingPart shade Hotto Warm Winter Spring Summer

Common Name The Orbicular Trichosalpinx [refers to the leaf's shape]

Flower Size 1/16" [2.5 mm]

Found from Nicaragua , Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Venezuela in wet montane cloud forests as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte at elevations of 180 to 1500 meters with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 5 coarsly ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate to broadly elliptic, subacute to obtuse leaf that is abruptly contracted below to the petiole and has the underside suffused with purple that blooms in the winter, spring or summer on a congested fascile of a few sussessively opening flowers held under the leaf at the leaf base.

Synonyms Humboldtia biflora (H. Focke) Kuntze 1891; Humboldtia orbicularis (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia biflora (H. Focke) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia orbicularis (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Lepanthes orbiculata Lindl. ex Rchb. f. 1856; Pleurothallis biflora H. Focke 1849; Pleurothallis lancifera Schltr. 1924; Pleurothallis orbicularis (Lindl.) Lindl. 1842; Pleurothallis trachytheca F. Lehm. & Kraenzl. 1899; *Specklinia orbicularis Lindl. 1838; Trichosalpinx lancifera (Schltr.) Luer 1983; Trichosalpinx oxychilos Carnevali & G.A. Romero 1993

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae Vol 3 Reichenbach 1892 as Pleurothallis orbicularis drawing; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as Pleurothallis orbicularis; Beitrage Zur Orchideenkunde Von Colombia 27:48 Schlechter 1924 as P lancifera; Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960 as Pleurothallis orbicularis; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961 as Pleurothallis orbicularis drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 35 No 7 1966 photo as Pleurothallis orbicularis; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970 as Pleurothallis orbicularis drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as Pleurothallis orbicularis drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 244 Dodson 1980 as Pleurothallis orbicularis drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1257 Dodson 1985; The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986 photo ok; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XV Systematics of Trichosalpinx Luer 1997 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 as T oxychilos drawing good; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 photo fide; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo fide;

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