Tropidia mindorensis Ames 1907<

PARATYPE Collection Sheet by © Misra

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Common Name The Mindoro Tropidia [An island of the Philippines where the TYPE was collected]

Flower Size .48" [1.2 cm] long

Found on Mindoro in The Philippines in humid forests at elevations around 275 meters as a medium sized, hot growing terrestrial with an erect, slender, branching stem carrying numerous, alternate, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, acute, 3 to 5 nerved leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, axillary, 1.2" [3 cm] long, few flowered inflorescence carrying yellowish white, unscented flowers tinged with green.

"Similar to T curculigoides but it differs in the smaler, terminal raceme and smaller flowers." Ames 1907

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Philipp. J. Sci., C 2: 315 Ames 1907

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