Trichosalpinx tenuis (C.Schweinf.) Luer 1983 SUBGENUS Tubella Luer 1986

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

Common Name The Thin Trichosalpinx [refers to the ?]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia in cloud forests at elevations around [700 to 1000] 2700 to 3500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, relatively stout ramicauls enveloped by 4 to 6, closely adpressed, microscopically scabrous, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect to suberect, thickly coriaceous, elliptical to broadly elliptical, subacute to obtuse, contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a suberect, subdense, secund, .8 to 2" [2 to 5 cm] long including the .04" [1 mm] long peduncle, simultaneously several flowered inflorescence arising from the apex of the ramicaul.

"Distinguished by the small habit, thick elliptical leaves and a suberect, secund inflorescence to to three times as long as the leaf. The sepals are carinate, acute and attenuate and the petals are ellitpical and acute. The ligulate lip posseses a pair or low, broadly rounded lobes below the middle and a low, longitudinal, channeled callus on the disc above the base." Luer 1997

Synonyms Karma tenuis (C.Schweinf.) Karremans 2023; *Pleurothallis tenuis C.Schweinf. 1942; Trichosalpinx vertex Luer & R.Escobar 1984; Tubella tenuis (C.Schweinf.) Archila 2000

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideologia Vol 16 No 2 1984 as T vertex drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XV Systematics of Trichosalpinx Luer 1997 drawing fide;

LANKESTERIANA 23(2). Karremans, Moreno, Gil-Amaya, Morales, Espinosa, Mesa, Restrepo, Rincon-Gonzales, Serna, Sierra-Ariza and Vieira-Uribe 2023 as Karma tenuis;

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