Thrixspermum ridleyanum Schltr. 1911 SECTION Dendrocolla Photo by Peter O'Byrne

Another Flower Photo by © Phil And Angie's Online Garden Website

Common Name Ridley's Thrixspermum [English Botanist and Director of Singapore Botanical Garden Mid 1800's to mid 1900's]

Flower Size .64 to .96" [1.6 to 2.4 cm]

Found in Thailand, Malaysia and Borneo in mixed lowland forests at elevations of sea level to 400 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphtye with a 4" long stem carrying lanceolate, often purple suffused and or spotted, blunt and unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms spring and fall on an axillary, 1.4 to 3" [3.5 to 7.5 cm] long, bracteate, successively single, 10 to 20 flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Dendrocolla maculata Ridl. 1896; Thrixspermum rubrocallosum Carr 1929

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957; Opera Botanica #95 Seidenfaden 1988 drawing fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing ok; A Checklist Of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo good; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 5 2010; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide

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