Thrixspermum duplocallosum Holttum 1947SECTION Dendrocolla

Photo by Peter O'Byrne

Another Flower showing variations

Plant and Flowers in situ Cameron Highlands Malayasia

Photos by © David Kuehn

Drawing

Drawing by Seidenfsden

Common Name The 2 Callus Thrixspermum

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in the Cameron Highlands 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 in the summer 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 dark crimson calli and a white column.

The most significant difference between this species and T brevicapsularis is the large triangular, cone like structure at the lip base instead of a clawed non saccate lip base of T brevicapsularis

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Gard. Bull. Singapore 11:290 Holttum 1947 drawing fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing fide; Orchids of Malaya Segerback 1992 photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 2011 as Malleola juliae photo fide;

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