Trichosalpinx roraimensis (Rolfe) Luer 1983 SUBGENUS Tubella Luer 1986

Drawing by Dunsterville & Garay 1966

Common Name The Mt Roraima Trichosalpinx

Flower Size .16" [4 mm]

Found in Venezuela and Guyana in light forests at elevations around 1700 to 1800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, filiform ramicauls enveloped by farily tight, tubular sheaths with dilated ostia with ciliate margins, carrying a single, apical, fleshy, somewhat variable in narrowness, orbicular to elliptic to narrowly ovate, contracted below into the base leaf that blooms from the base of the lamina of the leaf, peduncle filiform, 1" long overall, 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms *Pleurothallis roraimensis Rolfe 1901

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 as Pleurothallis roraimensis drawing fide; Field Guide to the Orchids of Venezuela an Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as Pleurothallis roraimensis drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela an Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Romero & Carnevali 2000 drawing fide

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