Trichosalpinx ramosii Luer 1997 SUBGENUS Pseudolepanthes Luer 1986

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and Epidendra Orchid Website

Common Name Ramos' Trichosalpinx [Colombian Orchid Enthusiast and cocollector of species current]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Choco' department of Colombia at elevations around 1900 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with comparatively stout, erect ramicauls enveloped by 3 to 8, ciliate-spiculate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying an erect, coriaceous, broadly elliptical, subacute to obtuse, mucronate, contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a filiform, strict, loose, to 4.4" [to 11 cm] long, successively many flowered inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul with spiculate, acuminate floral bracts.

" Distinguished by the free, glabrous, lateral sepals with the dorsal sepal long-spiculate, acute triangular petals with retrorse basal angles and a spathulate lip with the epichile cordate and concave with a denticulate margin but smooth within and a tall, papillose, gnomon-like callus in the center." Luer 1997

Synonyms Pseudolepanthes ramosii (Luer) Archila 2000

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XV Systematics of Trichosalpinx Luer 1997 drawing fide;

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