SUBGENUS Psuedolepanthes
Characterized by the This subgenus of ten closely allied species from western Colombia and northern Ecuador is characterized by the small habit with non-proliferating ramicauls clad in leapanthiform sheaths. The racemse are successively flowered and progressively elongated. The sepals are more or less membraneous, ciliate or spiculate, thae lateal sepLA re free or variously connate below the middle, the petals are entire or lobed at the base, the lip is simple but the disc bears a large verrucose callus below which the broad, unguiculate base is firmly attached at the base of the column. The footless columnis short and suberec with the anther and stigma in the frony surface, except for the arcuate column of T spathulata.
TYPE species for the SECTION
Trichosalpinx pseudolepanthes Luer & R.Escobar 1984
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