Tropidia septemnervis (Schauer) Rchb.f. 1852
Photos by Copyright © Ravan Schneider and Phyto Images Website
Drawing by Copyright © Blanche Ames
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Common Name The 7 Nerved Tropidia
Flower Size .64" [1.6 cm]
Found in the Philippines at elevations of 500 to 900 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with an erect stem carrying in the upper half, lanceolate, plicate, 7 veined leaves that blooms in the late summer and earlier fall on an erect, short, branched, terminal, many flowered inflorescence carrying non-resupinate, fragrant flowers.
Related to T gracilis
Synonyms *Ptychochilus septemnervis Schauer 1843; Tropidia minor Ames 1908
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Nov. Actorum Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. Nat. Cur. 19(Suppl. 1): 431 Schauer 1843 as Ptychochilus septemnervis
Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Fascile 2: 65 Ames 1908 as T minor
Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Fascile 2: 66 Ames 1908 as T minor drawing fide;
The Complete Writings on Philippine Orchids Vol 1 Quisumbing 1981;
Philippine Native Orchid Species Cootes 2011 photo fide
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