Trichosalpinx parsonsii Luer & Dodson 1997 SUBGENUS Tubella Luer 1986

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name Parsons' Trichosalpinx [American Co-collector of species current]

Flower Size .08" [2 mm]

Found in Costa Rica in cloud forests at elevations around 2650 to 3600 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with ascending, slender ramicauls enveloped by 3 to 4, minutely ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, ascending, thickly coricaeous, elliptical, obtuse, broadly cuneate to rounded below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a loose, subflexuous, distichous, filiform, .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm] long including the .4" [1 cm] long peduncle, simultaneously few flowered inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul.

" Vegetatively similar to T dura and T scabridula but differs in the loose racemes of tiny, yellow flowers which exceed the leaves in length, the proportionally narrower sepals and a simple oblong lip free of any callus." Luer 1997

Synonyms Tubella parsonsii (Luer & Dodson) Archila 2000

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XV Systematics of Trichosalpinx Luer 1997 drawing fide; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;

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