Trichosalpinx echinata Luer & Hirtz 2009 SUBGENUS Trichosalpinx

Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Bristly Trichosalpinx[possibly refers to the dewy habitat]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Zulia Venezuela in cloud forest at elevations of 1500 to 1800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with more or less prostrate, prolific, branching, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 closely adpressed, minutely ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, prostrate to pendent, thickly coricaeous, broadly elliptical to suborbicular, obtuse to rounded, rounded and contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a loose, slender, .4" [1 cm] long including the .2" [5 mm] long peduncle, successively 2 flowered inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; state of *Selbyana 30: 24, f. 47 Luer & Hirtz 2009 Drawing fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 as Specklinia echinata

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