Thrixspermum ancoriferum (Guillaumin) Garay 1972 SECTION Dendrocolla
Inflorescence Photos by Manorot Tangsaveepha Copyright ©, and the Butterfly and Orchids Photo Gallery
Common Name The Anchor Carrying Thrixspermum [refers to the lip apex]
Flower Size .32" [8 mm]
Found in Thailand and Vietnam at elevations around 1300 to 1400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with a short, monopodial stem carrying elliptic to linear-elliptic, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the spring on a basal, .6" [1.5 cm] long, successively single, few flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Cleisostoma aciliatum Guillaumin & Tixier 1965; Cleisostoma ancoriferum Guillaumin 1963
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Opera Botanica #95 Seidenfaden 1988 drawing/photo fide;
Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994;
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