Chroniochilus thrixspermoides (Schltr.) Garay 1972
Photos by © Jay Pfahl
Photos by © The Orchids of Sumatra Website
Common Name The Thrixspermum-Like Chroniochilus
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in north Sumatra in coffee plantations at elevations around 300 meters as a mini-miniature sized hot growing epiphyte with a short stem carrying a few elliptic, acute, glabrous, fleshy, keeled beneath leaves that blooms in the summer on a more or less sessile, shorter than the leaves, successively single flowered inflorescence carrying fragrant flowers.
Distinguished from C virescens by having a large, wide, orange, double callous on the inside of the midlobe margin.
Synonyms *Sarcochilus thrixspermoides Schltr. 1912
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 19/20 1129 - 1264 Brieger 1988; Orchids of SUmatra Comber 2001 drawing fide;
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