Tropidia saprophytica J.J.Sm. 1927
Photo by © A Lamb 1994
Plant and flowers in situ Borneo
Photos by Copyright © Rogier Van Vugt and His PBase Orchid Photo Website
Drawing by Copyright © Mrs M Church and Kew Bull. 39: 74 J J Wood 1984
Common Name The Myco-hetertrophic Tropidia
Flower Size 2.2" [5.6 cm]
Found in Borneo in lower montane forests at elevations around 1200 to 1900 meters as a small sized, cool growing myco-hetertrophic terrestrial with a wandering then erect, simple to repeatedly branching stem carrying distant ovate, amplexicaul, ramentaceous sheaths that blooms in the winter and spring on an erect, 1 to 1.4" [2.5 to 3.5 cm] long, lax to subdense, ramentaceous, 6 to 12 flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Muluorchis ramosa J.J.Wood 1984
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Mitt. Inst. Allg. Bot. Hamburg 7: 27 J J Smith 1927
Kew Bull. 39: 74 J J Wood 1984 as Muluorchis ramosa
The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993 drawing/photo fide;
A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994;
Orchids of Borneo Vol 1 Chan, Lamb, Shim & Wood 1994 drawing ok/photo not;
Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood & Beaman etal 2001;
The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 Drawing ok for plant/photo not;
The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011
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