Thrixspermum bromeliforme W.Suarez 2009 Photo by © The Purification Orchids Website

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Common Name The Bromeliad-Like Thrixspermum [Refers to the orchids shape]

Flower Size [1.79 cm]

Found in the Philippines at low elevations as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with an erect to ascending, quite rigid stem carrying elliptic, smooth, leathery, shiny, unequally bilobed apiclly leaves that blooms in the winter through summer on a slender, peduncle to 6.24" [15.4 cm] long, smooth, pale green to brown, rachis 1.6 to 2.8" [4 to 7 cm] long, successively 1 to 2, several flowered inflorescence and carrying short-lived, slightly fragrant flowers.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Philippine Native Orchid Species Cootes 2011 photo good

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