Thrixspermum congestum (F.M.Bailey) Dockrill 1967
SECTION Dendrocolla Photo by © Peter O'Byrne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Plant and Flowers Photos by André Schuiteman, courtesy of Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website
Common Name The Congested Thrixspermum - In Australia The Cupped Hairseed
Flower Size .6" [1.4 cm]
Found in New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Northern Territories and Queensland Australia, New Caledonia and Vanuatu in lowland forests at elevations of 10 to 450 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with an elongate, terete, rather rigid stem enveloped by striate, leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying ligulate, obliquely and obtusely bilobulate leaves that blooms in the winter and summer on an erect-patent, 5.4 to 8.8" [14 to 22 cm] long, densely several flowered inflorescence with lanceolate-subulate floral bracts that are shorter than the ovaries and carrying successively opening flowers
Synonyms *Cleisostoma congestum F.M.Bailey 1895; Thrixspermum adenotrichum Schltr. 1913
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913/1985 as T adenotrichum drawing fide to the second photo; Orchids of Vanuatu Lewis & Cribb 1989; The Orchids of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville Lewis & Cribb 1991 drawing fide; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006 photo fide to the first photo; Australian Orchid Review Vol 72 No 1 2007 photo; Flora Malesia Orchids of New Guinea Vol V 2008;
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