Trichoglottis gibbosicalcar ( Seid. ) Senghas 1988
Photos by Timothy Cholcto
Photo by © Peter O'Byrne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Humped Spur Trichoglottis
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Thailand in seasonally dry forests at elevations of 50 to 400 meters as a medium sized, hot growing monopodial epiphyte with an erect stem carrying 2 ranked, strap-shaped leaves that blooms in the spring on an axillary, 3 branched, 12 to 20" [30 to 50 cm] long, successively few, to 30 flowered inflorescence flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Staurochilus gibbosicalcar Seidenf. 1988;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Opera Botanica #95 Seidenfaden 1988 drawing/photo fide; Die Orchideen lieferung 19/20 Schlechter/Brieger 1988 as Trichoglottis gibbosicalcar; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo good; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide
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