Thrixspermum pygmaeum (King & Pantl.) Holttum 1960 SECTION Thrixspermum
Photo by Khyanjeet Gogoi © The Bioscience Discovery Website
Drawing by © Pantling and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Pygmy Thrixspermum
Flower Size .33" [.65 mm]
Found in the eastern Himalayas, Nepal and Vietnam in mixed deciduous and humid evergreen forets at elevations around 900 to 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a short, leafy stem carrying 2 to 3, fleshy, linear-oblong, acuminate leaves that blooms in the spring on 1 to 2, glabrous, peduncle to .75" [1.8 cm] long, minutely bracteate, rachis to .75" [1.8 cm] long, as long as the leaves, successively 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence.
Similar to Thrixspermum musciflorum but differs it in the longer than the leaf inflorescence, the short lateral lobes of the lip and the rounded, tongue-like lip callus
Synonyms *Sarcochilus pygmaeus King & Pantl. 1898
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchids of the Sikkim Himalaya King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide; Indian Orchids A Guide to Identification and culture Vol 2 Pradhan 1979 drawing fide; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Bioscience Discovery 3(2): 207-213, June Khyanjeet Gogoi, R. L. Borah, G. C. Sharma and Rajendra Yonzone 2012 Photo fide
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