Thrixspermum amesianum L.O.Williams 1938 SECTION Dendrocolla

Plant and Flower Photos by © Raab Bustamante and The Phyto Images Website

Common Name Ames Thrixspermum [American Botanist in Malesia 1900's]

Flower Size .32" [8 mm]

Found in the Philippines at low elevations as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with an erect, monopodial stem carrying, very stiff, leathery, unequally bilobed apcailly, oblong to elliptic leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, as long as the leaves, to 2.4" [6 cm] long, rachis thickened, successively many flowered inflorescence with triangular floral scales and carrying short lived flowers.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Philippine Native Orchd Species Cootes 2011 photo fide;

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