Thrixspermum annamense (Guillaumin) Garay 1972 SECTION Dendrocolla
Photo by © Ong Poh Teck
Photo by © Peter O'Byrne and the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Rernz Herbaria Website.
Common Name The Annam Thrixspermum - In China Hai Tai Bai Dian Lan
Flower Size .24" [6mm]
Found in the Chinese Himalayas, Thailand, Vietnam and Taiwan in forests on tree trunks at elevations around 600 to 1200 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a short stem carrying 4 to 5, nearly basal, sometimes purple tinged, narrowly oblong, leathery, acute and slightly bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the fall on a 2.4 to 3.6" [6 to 9 cm] long, slender, becoming thicker distally, densely many flowered inflorescence with 2 to 3 sheaths and persistent, ovate floral bracts and carrying fragrant, successively opening, short-lived flowers
Synonyms *Ascochilus annamensis Guillaumin 1961; Thrixspermum austrosinense Tang & F.T.Wang 1974; Thrixspermum devolium T.P.Lin & C.C.Hsu 1977
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Botanisk Tidsskrift Bild 70 Hft 1 Contributions to the flora of Thailand VI Seidenfaden 1975; Opera Botanica #95 Seidenfaden 1988 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 22 1329 - 1392 Brieger 1989 as T austrosinense; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo fide; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo not; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; The Atlas of Wild Orchids in Hainan Island, China Shenyan and Junmei 2010 photo hmm; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide; The Wild Orchids of Taiwan Liu & Wang 2014 photos fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 18 2016 photo fide; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 2 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;
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