Trichosalpinx barbelifera Luer & R.Vásquez 1997 SUBGENUS Tubella
Photo by © Modesto Zarate B. and The Parque Nacional Carrasco, Cochabamba Bolivia, Orquideas del Proyecto Hidroelectrico Ivirizu Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Orchid Website
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Common Name The Barbel Bearing Trichosalpinx [refers to the long tails of the sepals]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Bolivia in wet, steep forests at elevations around 2600 to 2750 meters as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, prolific, slender ramicauls enveloped by 3 to 5, closely adpressed, ribbed, lepanthiform sheaths with minutely ciliate ostia and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, erect , elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later spring on a secund, loose, 3.2 to 6" [8 to 15 cm] long, simultaneoulsy several flowered inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul.
"Similar to T arbuscula but is distinguished by the weak habit. A long flexuous stem of superposed ramicauls with leaves at intervals creeps in loose accumulations of mossy litter. Racemes of several, very long tailed flowers are produced. The sepals are white with purple stripes along the veins and the long filamentous tails are yellow green. The small, acute petals and the longitudinally callous, entire lip and column are similar to T arbuscula." Luer 1997
Synonyms Tubella barbelifera (Luer & R.Vásquez) Archila 2000
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XV Systematics of Trichosalpinx Luer 1997 drawing fide; The Parque Nacional Carrasco, Cochabamba Bolivia, Orquideas del Proyecto Hidroelectrico Ivirizu Website 2021 photo fide;
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