Trichosalpinx tantilla (Luer) Luer 1997 SUBGENUS Tubella Luer 1986

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Website

LATE EARLY

Common Name The So-Tiny Trichosalpinx

Flower Size .08" [2 mm]

Found in Cocle' department of Panama in cloud forests at elevations around 400 to 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, prolific, warm growing epiphyte with erect to suberect, superposed to prolific ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 4 lepanthiform sheaths with cilate ostia and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse, contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a loose, 1.4" [3.5 cm] long including the .2 to .28" [5 to 7 mm] long peduncle, simultaneously several flowered inflorescence arising from the apex of the ramicaul.

"Superficially similat to the T durae complex with small ramicauls proliferating one or two others and simultaneously several-flowered racemes 2 to 3 times as long as the leaf. The tiny yellow-green flowers are suffussed with purple along the veins of the sepals and on the lip. The sepals are carinate, the petals are subacute and the obscurely 3 lobed lip is bicarinate with a thickened apex. The slender column is devoid of any wing." Luer 1997

Synonyms *Pleurothallis tantilla Luer 1979; Tubella tantilla (Luer) Archila 2000

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Selbyana 5(2): 183–184. Luer 1979 as Pleurothallis tantilla drawing fide;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XV Systematics of Trichosalpinx Luer 1997 drawing fide;

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