Trichosalpinx uvaria Luer 1997 SUBGENUS Pseudolepanthes Luer 1986
Photos by © Ferdy Christant and The Jungle Dragon Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
LATER 
Common Name The Grape Bunch Trichosalpinx [refers to the callus of the lip]
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Choco' and Risaralda departments of Colombia at elevations around 1900 to 2450 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped by 3 to 5, long-ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths with dilated ostia and carrying an erect, coriaceous, green with purple veins, broadly elliptical, subacute to obtuse with a prominent mucro, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later summer on a strict, loose, 2.8" [7 cm] long, successively many flowered inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul with acuminate, long-spiculate floral bracts.
"Collected with T spathulata 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 uvaria is distinguished by the smaller flowers, petals with a prominent, hook-like lobe above the base and a lip with a proportionally large callus that occupies 2/3's of the lip. It is prominently lobulate-papillose like a bunch of grapes." Luer 1997
Synonyms Pseudolepanthes uvaria (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 photo fide; as Pseudolepanthes uvaria photo fide
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