Trichosalpinx pumila (Luer) Luer 1983 SUBGENUS Tubella Luer 1986

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

Common Name The Small Trichosalpinx

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in southern Venezuela and eastern Ecuador at elevations around 1000 to 2500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 2, ribbed, glabrous, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coricaeous, broadly elliptical to suborbicular, margined, obtuse, apiculate, contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a loose, filiform, 2 to 4" [5 to 10 cm] long including the .4 to 1" [2 to 3 cm] long peduncle, successively few flowered inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul.

"Very similar to T nymphalis and T systremmata but distinguished from them by the pair of tall laminae on the disc of the lip. Only the much larger T tenuis with a well developed ramicaul possesses a similar cleft callus." Luer 1997

Synonyms *Pleurothallis pumila Luer 1975; Tubella pumila (Luer) Archila 2000

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Selbyana 1: 268 Luer 1975as Pleurothallis pumila drawing fide; Phytologia 54(5): 397. Luer 1983; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XV Systematics of Trichosalpinx Luer 1997 drawing fide;

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