Thrixspermum gracilicaule Schltr. 1907 SECTION Thrixspermum Drawing by © Seidenfaden and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Thin Stemmed Thrixspermum

Flower Size

Found in Sumatra without elevational data as a climbing, scrambling, large sized [ to 1 meter long] epiphyte with an elongate, slender, terete stem carrying well spaced, tough in texture, erect to spreading, oblong-elliptic, obliquely obtuse, broad in the middle leaves that blooms on a spreading, longer than the leaves, peduncle slightly flattened, few sheathed, [at least 6 to 7 cm] long overall, rachis many flowered inflorescence with ovate-falcate, obtuse, scarcely as long as the ovaries floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2002 drawing fide;

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