Trichosalpinx scabridula (Rolfe) Luer 1983 SUBGENUS Tubella Luer 1986
Photos by © Saul Altamirano A. and The Parque Nacional Carrasco, Cochabamba Bolivia, Orquideas del Proyecto Hidroelectrico Ivirizu Website
Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation At the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
Common Name The Scabrous Trichosalpinx [refers to the sheaths on the ramicaul]
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Venezuela, Peru and Bolivia at elevations af 1900 to 3200 meters as a mini-miniature sized, prolific, cool to cold growing epiphyte with ascending, scandent, prolific, branching ramicauls enveloped completely by 2 to 4, minutely ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, often purplish, ascending, thickly coriaceous, elliptical to suborbicular, lens-shaped, obtuse to rounded apically broadly cuneate to rounded below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a filiform, .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm] long, loose, subflexuous, disitchous, simultaneously few flowered, racemose inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul.
Very similar to T intricata but differs in the prolific, scandent habit. A larger, long-scandent species with long-acuminate sepals is called T notosiberica.
Synonyms Karma scabridula (Rolfe) Karremans 2023; *Pleurothallis scabridula Rolfe 1895; Tubella scabridula (Rolfe) Archila 2000
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora de Venezuela Volumen XV Parte 2 Foldats 1970 as Pleurothallis scabridula drawing good; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XV Systematics of Trichosalpinx Luer 1997 drawing fide; Orchids of Bolivia Vol 1 Vasquez & Ibisch 2000; The Parque Nacional Carrasco, Cochabamba Bolivia, Orquideas del Proyecto Hidroelectrico Ivirizu Website 2021 photo fide;
LANKESTERIANA 23(2). Karremans, Moreno, Gil-Amaya, Morales, Espinosa, Mesa, Restrepo, Rincon-Gonzales, Serna, Sierra-Ariza and Vieira-Uribe 2023 as Karma scabridula;
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