Trichosalpinx spathulata Luer 1997 SUBGENUS Pseudolepanthes Luer 1986
Photo by © David Nattrass The Jungle Dragon Website
Photo by © Sebastian Viera Uribe
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Spatulate Trichosalpinx [refers to the petals]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Choco' and Risaralda departments of Colombia at elevations around 1600 to 2000 meters as a miniature sized, prolific, cool to cold growing epiphyte with stout, erect, prolific ramicauls enveloped by 3 to 4, long-ciliate lepanthiform sheaths with dilated ostia and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, green with purple veined, elliptical, obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer and winter on a loose, 2.4" [6 cm] long including the .4" [1 cm] long peduncle, successively many flowered inflorescence arising from the apex of the ramicaul with acuminate, long-spiculate floral bracts.
"Collected with T silverstonei and T uvaria where all three coexist in Choco and Risaralda departments of Colombia and all are similar vegetatively but each has a distinct flower. T spathulata is distinguished by the concave, spiculate sepals, long ungiculate, broadly spathulate. ereose petals and a lip with an erect, finger-like callus. The margins of the lip are thin and dilated with lobulate margins." Luer 1997
Synonyms Pseudolepanthes spathulata (Luer) Archila 2000
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XV Systematics of Trichosalpinx Luer 1997 drawing fide; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Pseudolepanthes spatulata photo fide
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