Trichosalpinx carinilabia (Luer) Luer 1983 SUBGENUS Tubella

TYPE Drawing of Pleurothallis carinilabia by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Orchid Website

LATER EARLY

Common Name The Carinate Lipped Trichosalpinx

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Costa Rica and Panama at elevations around 1400 to 2200 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect to suberect, prolific, usually 2 to 3 superposed ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 4, ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, thickly coriaceous, erect, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, apiculate, contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later spring and early summer on a filiform, loose, 1" [2.5 cm] long, successively few flowered inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul.

"Distinguished by the occasionally prolific ramicauls that bear successive, white flowers surpasses the leaf by 2 to 3 times. The sepals are carinate, the petals are obtuse, the oblong lip bears three calli, a pair above the middle and a third in the center and the apex is abruptly very thick and convex and sharply concave below between the lateral calli. The column lacks the broad apical wings seen in T dura." Luer 1997

Synonyms *Pleurothallis carinilabia Luer 1977; Tubella carinilabia (Luer) Archila 2000

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XV Systematics of Trichosalpinx Luer 1997 drawing fide; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003

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