Trichosalpinx caudata Luer & R.Escobar 1997 SUBGENUS Trichosalpinx
Photo by © Byron Rinke
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Webpage
LATE 
Common Name The Tailed Trichosalpinx
Flower Size .1" [2.5 mm]
Found in Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia at elevations around 500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 8 minutely but coarsely, ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, more or less suffused with purple beneath, broadly elliptical-ovate, subacute to obtuse, abruptly contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a filiform peduncle .12 to .2" [3 to 5 mm] long, arising from behind the leaf from near the apex of the ramicaul, congested, secund, .18" to .35" [4 to 7 mm] long, simultaneously few flowered inflorescence
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XV Systematics of Trichosalpinx Luer 1997 drawing fide; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo fide; Lankesteriana 12[3]: 281 Karremans and Bogarin 2014 photo/drawing fide;
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