Trichosalpinx manningii Luer 2002 SUBGENUS Tubella Luer 1986
Photo by © S Manning and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Photo by © Ron Parsons
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Manning's Trichosalpinx [Pleurothallidinae Afficianado Current]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Peru without collection data as a mini-miniature sized prolific epiphyte with erect, slender, prolific ramicauls enveloped by 4 to 5 closely adpressed lepanthiform sheaths with dilated ostia and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, broadly elliptical, obtuse to rounded apically, cuneate below into the twisted petiolate base leaf that blooms in winter on a loose, arising from near the apex of the ramicaul, lightly flexuous, flexible, 2 to 2.4" [5 to 6 cm] long including the .4 to 1.2" [1 to 3 cm] long peduncle, 5 to 7 flowered inflorescence with shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
"Distinguished by the long-attenuate petals that are similar to the sepals. Vegetaqqtively it is characterized by the prolific habit, and the broadly elliptical leaves that are surpassed by a loose, few flowered raceme. The free sepals and petals are transluscent white and long-acuminate. The lip is three lobed with the lateral lobes below the middle, uncinate and antrorse. In the center of the disc is a deep, longitudinal, well defined cavity." Luer 2002
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIV A First Century of New Species of Stelis of Ecuador Part 1 Luer 2002 drawing fide;
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