Thrixspermum poilanei (Gagnep.) Tang & F.T.Wang 1951 Drawing by © Seidenfaden and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name Poilane's Thrixspermum [French Orchid Collector of species 1900's]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Vietnam as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with an ascending stem carrying 6 or so, opposite, linear, acute, condup[licate leaves thaqt blooms on a few, axillary, erect, 2.4 to 3" [6 to 7.5 cm] long, successively single, few flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms *Thylacis poilanei Gagnep. 1932

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994;

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