Plant and Flowers en situ, Vulcan de Purace Colombia 6/07 Photo by Jay Pfahl.

Flower Closeup Photo by Milan Vágner.

Yellow flower color Photo courtesy of Rogier van Vugt © and his Orchid webpage

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Common Name or Meaning The Creeping Lepanthes-Like Trichosalpinx

Flower Size 1/5" [5 mm]

Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru as a miniature sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte at elevations of 750 to 3500 meters on scrubby vegatation in forests with erect, ascending or pendant ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 8, long ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and which develop new ramicauls from the apex of the last and carry a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, broadly elliptical to suborbicular, obtuse leaf that is contracted below into a petiole and blooms on a solitary or losse, 2 to 3 successive flowered, racemose, 1/4 to 3/5" [7 to 15 mm] long inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul. This species has variable color possibilities and although a shade of purple is the mmost common, pure yellow forms exist.

Synonyms Humboldtia chamaelepanthes (Rchb. f.) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia chamaelepanthes (Rchb. f.) Kuntze 1891; Lepanthes corazonis Schltr. 1915; *Pleurothallis chamaelepanthes Rchb. f. 1859; Pleurothallis microcharis Schltr. 1921; Trichosalpinx microcharis (Schltr.) Luer 1921

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten III Ecuador Schlechter 1921 as Pleurothallis microcharis; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XV Systematics of Trichosalpinx Luer 1997; Orchid Species Of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide

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