Taeniophyllum trichopus Schltr. 1913 SECTION Loboglossum

Side View of Flower

Plant Photos courtesy of André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website

Common Name The Hair-Shaped Column Foot Taeniophyllum

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in New Guinea in lower montane forests at elevations of 100 to 200 meters as a small sized, hot growing leafless epiphyte with flattened, flexuous, to 20" [to 50 cm] long roots raditing from a central nexus and blooming in the spring on an erect, racemose, distichous, 1.4 to 4" [3.5 to 10 cm] long, rather densely 10 to 20 flowered inflorescence with successively opening, glabrous flowers.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1914/1985; Flora Malesia Orchids of New Guinea Vol V 2008;