Trichosalpinx manningii Luer 2002 SUBGENUS Tubella Luer 1986

Photo by © S Manning and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Another Flower

Photo by © Ron Parsons

Full shade Winter

Common Name Manning's Trichosalpinx [Pleurothallidinae Afficianado Current]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Peru without collection data as a mini-miniature sized epiphyte with erect, slender, prolific ramicauls enveloped by 4 to 5 closely adpressed lepanthiform sheaths with dilated ostia and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, broadly elliptical, obtuse to rounded apically, cuneate below into the twisted petiolate base leaf that blooms in winter on a loose, lightly flexuous, flexible, 2 to 2.4" [5 to 6 cm] long including the .4 to 1.2" [1 to 3 cm] long peduncle, 5 to 7 flowered inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIV Luer 2002 drawing fide;

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