Thrixspermum ligulatum L.O.Williams 1938 Photos courtesy of Peter O'Byrne, Dr Ed de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III

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Common Name or Meaning The Ligulate Leaf Thrixspermum

Flower Size 2.8" [7 cm]

Found in the Philippines as a miniature to large sized, hot growing epiphyte with terete stems enveloped by persistent leaf sheaths and carrying 2 ranked, oblong, strap-shaped, obtuse, slightly unequally notched apically leaves that blooms in the late summer and fall on a 4 to 6" [10 to 15 cm] long, few to 12 flowered inflorescence with obtuse, apically encircling the stem floral bracts.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo fide; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003 ;

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