Trichoglottis geminata (Teijsm. & Binn.) J.J.Sm. 1905
Photo by Dr. E.F. de Vogel, courtesy of Andre Schuiteman and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website and Flora Malesiana Vol III
Photo by Tony Watkinson.
Photo by Dale and Deni Borders.
Common Name The Paired Trichoglottis [refers to the two flowered inflorescence] - Zebra Orchid
Flower Size .5" [1.25 cm]
ound in the Philippines on the island of Leyte in scrub and on volcanic rocks and trees near the sea at elevations to 1100 meters and is a medium sized, hot to warm growing monopodial epiphyte with a pendant to climbing , rigid, leafy stem carrying leathery, oblong, 2 ranked leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on a sessile, axillary, short, single flowered inflorescence that has the fragrant sweetly scented flower held close to the stem.
Synonyms *Sarcanthus geminatus Teijsm. & Binn. 1867; Stauropsis wenzelii (Ames) Ames & Quisumb. 1934; Trichoglottis oblongifolia Rolfe 1899; Trichoglottis wenzelii Ames 1914
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Complete Writings on Philippine Orchids Vol 1 Quisumbing 1981 as Trichoglottis wenzelii; The Complete Writings on Philippine Orchids Vol 2 Quisumbing 1981 as Stauropsis wenzelii drawing/photo fide; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984 as Trichoglottis wenzellii; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; The Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 photo fide; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood & Beaman etal 2001; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo fide; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 1 2008 photo fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 4 2009; Philippine Native Orchid Species Cootes 2011 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 80 #2 2016; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #1 2016 as T wenzelii photo fide;
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