!Trichotosia ferox (Blume) Korth. ex Blume 1856
Photo by © Eric Hunt
Photo by Nik Fahmi and his Vortex Orchid Page
Plant and Flower in situ Mt Kinabalu Borneo
Plant and Flowers in situ Cameron Highlands Malaysia
Photo by © David Kuehn
Common Name The Ferocious-Looking Trichotosia
Flower Size 3/4" [1.85 cm]
Found in peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra and Java in exposed places in humid mountains at elevations of 820 to 1900 meters as a giant sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte or terrestrial with pendulous, terete, leafy throughout stems carrying oblong-lanceolate, acuminate leaves covered with light brown hairs and blooms on limply pendulous, 4" [10 cm] long, pilose inflorescence with several flowers that arise in the summer in situ.
Synonyms *Eria ferox Blume 1856; Eria pyrrhotricha Ridl. 1914; Eria virescens Schltr. 1912; Pinalia ferox (Blume) Kuntze 1891; Trichotosia pyrrhotricha Ridl. 1924
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1856 Eria ferox; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1857 Eria ferox; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905 as Eria ferox; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 as Eria ferox drawing fide; Flora of the Malayan Penninsula Ridley 1908 as Eria ferox; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 6 Ames 1920 as Eria ferox; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957 as Eria ferox; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1960 as Eria ferox drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Eria ferox; Opera Botanica #62 Orchid Genera in Thailand X Seidenfaden 1982 drawing good; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo ok; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing fide; Orchids of Malaya Segerback 1992 drawing fide; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993 photo not = T vestita; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993 as T aff ferox; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo fide; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman etal & Wood 2001; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 3 2004; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 4 part 1 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2005 photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing/photo good; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #10 2016 photo fide;
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