Trichoglottis luzonensis Ames 1915
Photo by Peter O'Byrne, courtesy of Dr. E.F. de Vogel Andre Schuiteman and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III
Photo by David Morris
Photo by Dale Borders
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Common Name The Luzon Trichoglottis [Philippine island]
Flower Size 1.6 to 2" [4 to 5 cm]
Found in the Philippines at elevations below 400 meters as a small sized, hot growing, monopodial epiphyte with a stout, flattened, 2.4" [6 cm] long stem carrying 2 ranked, compact, overlapping, leathery, strap-shaped, unequally bilobed apically, slightly narrowing basally leaves that blooms in the summer through fall an axillary, erect, 36" [90 cm] long, rigid, smooth, racemose to paniculate, each 3 to 4 flowered branch 1.4 to 2" [3.5 to 5 cm] long, several to many flowered inflorescence with successive opening, fleshy, faintly fragrant flowers.
Synonyms Staurochilus luzonensis [Ames] Ames 1925; Trichoglottis ionosma var. luzonensis (Ames) S.S.Ying 1977; Vandopsis kupperiana Kraenzl. 1921
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Trichoglottis luzonensis; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984 as Trichoglottis luzonensis; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 21 1165 - 1328 Brieger 1988 as Trichoglottis luzonenesis drawing/photo fide; Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 photo fide; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; Orchid Digest Vol 71 No 1 2007 photo; Orchid Digest Vol 71 #1 2008 photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide
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