Thrixspermum trichoglottis
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Thrixspermum trichoglottis is a monopodial orchid in the subfamily Epidendroideae
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Morphologies that have been observed in Pasoh Forest Reserve
, Malaysia:
Epidendroideae
In plant systematics Epidendroideae is a subfamily of the orchid family, Orchidaceae. Epidendroideae is larger than all the other orchid subfamilies together, comprising more than 15,000 species in 576 genera. Most Epidendroid orchids are tropical epiphytes, typically with pseudobulbs...
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Description
Pasoh Forest Reserve
The Pasoh Forest Reserve, a nature reserve located about 8 km from Simpang Pertang, Malaysia and around 70 km southeast of Kuala Lumpur, has a total area of 2450 hectares, with a core area of 600ha surrounded by a buffer zone. Palm oil plantations surround on three sides of the reserve...
, Malaysia:
- pseudobulb absent
- monopodial
- leaf equally bilobulate (young leaves somehow unequal)
- leaves 15mm by 65mm, thin and fleshy
- stem sheathed with internode 1 cm
- stem mildly branched
- rooting throughout, rhizome heavily branched
- Inflorescene 1-2 flowers, with a long bract about 10 cm long, scale like
- lateral sepal unevenly romboid, 4 by 7mm
- dorsal sepal elliptic, 2 by 6mm
- lip 7 by 6mm with only one lobe
- purbesent at both face of the lobe, with fleshy acute tip
- yellow-orange spots on the outer surfaces near the lip tip
- column small, 3 by 4mm
- color dimmer than petals and sepals
- pollinia white.