Trichotosia microphylla Blume 1825
Photo by J B Comber/ TYPE Drawing by © J J Smith and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Photo by © Huang Mingzhong
Another Flower ? = Trichotosia dongfangensis ?
Plant and Flower ? = Trichotosia dongfangensis ?
Photos courtesy of André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III
Common Name The Small Leafed Trichotosia - In China Xiao Ye Mao Qiao Lan
Flower Size .3" [7.5mm]
Found in Hainan province of China, Thailand, Malaysia, Laos, Vietnam, Borneo, Java and Sumatra in swamp, oak/laurel and lower montane forests at elevations of 600 to 2000 meters as a small to medium sized, pendant, warm to cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte with a long, creeping, branching rhizome giving rise to 2 rows of oblong, obtuse, fleshy, pubescent leaves with about 2.4" [6 cm] between each one and blooms in the winter on a densely hairy, .2" [4 mm] long, single flowered inflorescence with a hairy, linear floral bracts and hairy flowers.
CAUTION I am not 100% sure of this determination so use with caution.
Synonyms Eria microphylla (Blume) Blume 1856; Pinalia microphylla (Blume) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905 as Eria microphylla; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 as Eria microphylla drawing ok; Contributions to the Knowledge of the Flora of Sumatra Schlechter 1911 as E microphylla; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Orchids Holttum 1957 as Eria microphylla; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 corrections as Eria microphylladrawing good; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 Eria microphylla; Contribution to a Revision of the Orchid Flora of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam Seidenfaden 1975 as Eria microphylla; Opera Botanica #62 Orchid Genera in Thailand X Seidenfaden 1982 drawing fide; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo?; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Wood & Sieidenfaden 1992 drawing fide/photo fide; Orchids of Malaya Segerback 1992 drawing fide; Orchids of Malaya Segerback 1992 as photos fide; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993 photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo good; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood & Beaman etal 2001; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo fide; Wild Orchids of the Casmeron Highlands REACH 2009 photo fide; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 as Eria microphylla photo plant only; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 photo ok; 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; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 2 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;
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