Trichosalpinx fruticosa Luer 1996 SUBGENUS Tubella Luer 1986
Photo by © Daniel Jimenez and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
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Common Name The Bushy Trichosalpinx [refers to the plant habit]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Guatemala, El Salvador and Costa Rica forests at elevations around 2100 to 2400 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing, branching epiphyte with slender, ascending, prolific, producing another at the apex of the ramicaul enveloped by 2 to 8, closely adpressed, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, ascending to erect, thickly coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse, contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring through fall on a filiform, loose, 1 to 1.2" [2.5 to 3 cm] long, simultaneously few flowered inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul.
Similar to T cedralensis but is distinguished by by the acute petals which separates it from all others in the subgenus .It also has a narrow lip with a distinctive, longitudinal carina down the center." Luer 1997
Synonyms Tubella fruticosa (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; Lankesteriana 19(1). 31 - 55 2019 photo fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 as Tubella fruticosa
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