!Thrixspermum centipeda Lour. 1790 SECTION Thrixspermum
Photo by Donald G. Tan
Photo by Karel Petrzelka and the Vietnam Orchid Website
Photo by Eka Mulja Tjipta
Plant and Flowers in situ Cameron Highlands Malaysia
Photo by David Kuehn
Common Name The Centipede Thrixspermum - In China Bai Dian Lan
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Guangxi, Hainan and Yunnan provinces of China, Hong Kong, the eastern Himalayas, Assam, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Penninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Java, Sulawesi, Sumatra and the Philippines in broadleaf, evergreen, semi-deciduous and deciduous, dry, lowland forests and savana-like woodlands at elevations of 300 to 1300 meters as a miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte with erect, elliptic [in crosscut], rooting along the length stem carrying thick, fleshy, elliptic, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the spring on a to 14" [.4 meter] long, pendant, strongly flattened towards the apex inflorescence with 2 ranked rows of persistent floral bracts from which arise nicely fragrant flowers that last 2 to 3 days
Synonyms Aerides arachnites (Blume) Lindl. 1833 ; Aerides flos-aeris Sw. 1799; Dendrobium auriferum Lindl. 1830; Dendrocolla arachnites Blume 1825; Epidendrum thrixspermum Rausch 1797; Sarcochilus arachnites (Blume) Rchb.f. 1863; Sarcochilus auriferus (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1863; Sarcochilus centipeda (Lour.) Náves in F.M.Blanco 1880; Sarcochilus hainanensis Rolfe 1896; Thrixspermum arachnites (Blume) Rchb.f. 1868; Thrixspermum auriferum (Lindl.) Rchb. f. 1830; Thrixspermum hainanense (Rolfe) Schltr. 1911; Thrixspermum papillosum Carr 1929; Vanda pauciflora Breda 1829
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1856 as Dendocolla arachnites; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1857 as Dendocolla arachnites; Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1865; Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1865 as T arachnites; Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1865 as T auriferum; Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1878 as T arachnites; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 as Sarcochilus/Dendrocolla arachnites drawing okish; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905 as T arachnites; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Sm. 1908 as T arachnites drawing ok; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as T hainanense; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1963 as T arachnites drawing, photo; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 corrections; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as T arachnites drawing ok; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as T hainanense; AOS Bulltein Vol 39 No 10 1970 as T arachnites photo OK; The Orchids of Papua New Guinea An Introduction Millar 1978 as T aracnites photo fide; Indian Orchids A Guide to Identification and culture Vol 2 Pradhan 1979 as T arachnites photo fide; Opera Botanica #95 Seidenfaden 1988 drawing/photo good; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 22 1329 - 1392 Brieger 1989 drawing/photo good; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 22 1329 - 1392 Brieger 1989 as T auriferum; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 as T arachnites; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing ok; Orchids of Malaya Segerback 1992 photo fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 photo fide; Thai Orchid Species Rakpaibulsombat 1992 photo ok; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; Living with Orchids in Sumatra Landau 1996 as T arachnites photo fide; The Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen & Mori 1997; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; Lindleyana Vol 15 No 4 2000; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo fide; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood & Beaman etal 2001; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 photo ok; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002 drawing good; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 1 2004 photo fide; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo ok; 100 Sikkim Himalayan Orchids Pradhan 2005 photo fide; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing ok; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 2 2008; Wild Orchids of the Cameron Highlands REACH 2009 photo fide; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo ok; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 5 2010; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing ok; The Atlas of Wild Orchids in Hainan Island, China Shenyan and Junmei 2010 photo fide ok; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 photo ok; The Wild Orchids of Hong Kong Barretto, Cribb and Gale 2011 drawing/photo fide; Turczaninowia 16(4):26-46 NEW AND RARE ORCHIDS (ORCHIDACEAE) IN THE FLORA OF CAMBODIA AND LAOS Averyanov 2013 ; Turczaninowia 19 (3): 5–58 L. V. Averyanov, Khang Sinh Nguyen etal 2016 ; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 2 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;
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