Thrixspermum corneri Holttum 1947 SECTION Dendrocolla

Drawing by Seidenfsden

Common Name The 2 Callus Thrixspermum

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Johor state of penninsular Malaysia, as a mini-miniature sized, sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a short stem carrying a few, not fleshy, ovate, bilobed apically, carrying 6 to 8, slightly unequally bilobed leaves that blooms on a 1.68" [4.5 cm] long peduncle, rachis to .32" [8 mm ] long, successively single, to 10 flowered inflorescence with broadly triangular, purple floral bracts and carrying flowers with white tepals very faintly tinged with mauve, the lip orange with dukk crimson calli and a white column.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Gard. Bull. Singapore 11:292 Holttum 1947 The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing fide;

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