Trichoglottis hastatiloba J.J.Wood & A.L.Lamb 2009

Plant and flower Photo by © Epicphals and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website

Common Name The Lance Like Trichoglottis [refers to the lip midlobe]

Flower Size .24" [6 mm]

Found in Sabah Borneo in hill forests at elevations around 800 meters as a medium sized, warm, pendulous growing epiphyte with pendent clustered, slightly basally swollen stems carrying many, coriaceous, narrowly ligulate, distinctly constricted below the apex and tapering to a subulate apex leaves that blooms in the winter on many, all along the stem, to .2" [5 mm] long, fractiflex, 3 to 4 flowered inflorescence with ovate, obtuse floral bracts.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 1 2009 as T sp #2 photo fide; *Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 4 2009 drawing/photo fide;

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