Thrixspermum pensile Schltr. 1911 SECTION Dendrocolla
Plant and Flowers in situ in Indonesia
Photos by © James Comber and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria site
Common Name or Meaning The Hanging Thrixspermum - In China Chui Zhi Bai Dian Lan
Flower Size .68" [1.7 cm]
Found in Taiwan, Thailand, Java, Sumatra and Borneo in lowland forests on tree trunks at elevations of 500 to 600 meters as a medium to large sized, warm, pendent growing epiphyte with a pendulous, compressed, leafy throughout stem carrying elliptic, thick, slightly fleshy, conduplicate towards the base, acute leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on an axillary, .4 to .8" [1 to 2 cm] long, much shorter than the leaves, successively few, several flowered, inflorescence with persistent, not distichous, ovate-triangular floral bracts and carrying short lived flowers
Synonyms Aporum pendulicaule (Hayata) Rauschert 1983; Dendrobium pendulicaule Hayata 1914; Thrixspermum pendulicaule (Hayata) Schltr. 1919
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Opera Botanica #95 Seidenfaden 1988 drawing fide/photo good; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 22 1329 - 1392 Brieger 1989 drawing good; The Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo fide; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993 photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood& Cribb 1994; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo good; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 5 2010; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 photo ok plant only; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 photo fide; The Wild Orchids of Taiwan Liu & Wang 2014 photos fide
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