Trichosalpinx acremona (Luer) Luer 1983 SUBGENUS Tubella Luer 1986
Drawing by © Carmen Soto
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Branching Trichosalpinx
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia at elevations of 1150 to 2800 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with a prolific, branching, erect to suberect rhizome giving rise to an ascending, slender ramicaul enveloped by 2 to 8, minutely ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, ascending, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring summer and fall on a loose, subflexuous, filiform, .8 to 2" [2 to 5 cm] long including the .2 to .6" [.5 to 1.5 cm] long peduncle, simultaneously several flowered inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicual.
"Distinguished by the branching, prolific ramicauls that bear narrowly elliptical leaves. The flowers are produced simultanously in racemes longer than the leaf. The sepals are free and narrowly acute and the lateral lobes of the lip are large, erect and antrorse with an irregular margin. There is no callus. The species is similar to T cedralensis but the former is distinguished by the usually larger flowers, tall, oblique, lateral lobes of the lip with the anterior margins of the lobes irregular and with antrorse, apical wings of the column. Large vegetative and floral forms of T acremona appear similar to T vagans and T dunstervillei but both these are distinguished by the low lateral lobes of the lip with tall keels on the disc." Luer 1997
Synonyms Karma acremona [Luer] Karremans 2023 acremona; *Pleurothallis acremona Luer 1979
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Selbyana 5: 157 Luer 1979 as Pleuorthallis acremona; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol I Luer 1986; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XV Systematics of Trichosalpinx Luer 1997 drawing fide;Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42-43 pg 2624 - 2756 Brieger 2001; LANKESTERIANA 15(1): Thoerle & Soto 2015 drawing/photo fide;
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