Trichosalpinx ringens Luer 1996 SUBGENUS Trichosalpinx Photo by © Daniel Jimenez

Common Name or Meaning The Rigid Trichosalpinx

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Costa Rica and Panama in cloud forests at elevations around 1400 to 1800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with slender, erct, ramicauls enveloped by 8 to 10, coarsely long-ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate, acute to subacute, contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall through spring on a racemose, .2 to .25" [5 to 7 mm] long, fascile of successive, single flowered inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul and carrying the flower on the front of the leaf

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list, IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XV Luer 1997 drawing fide;

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