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Orchid Species: Trichosalpinx lenticularis
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Trichosalpinx lenticularis is an orchid species identified by (Luer) Luer in 1997.
ORIGIN: Found in southeastern Ecuador in windswept elfin forests at elevations of 2700 to 3500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls that can produce new ramicauls from the apex of the old and enveloped basally by 3 to 4 microscopically ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, erect, thickly coriaceous with convex surfaces, often purple striped, elliptical, subacute to obtuse leaf that is cuneate below into a petiole and blooms in the summer and fall on a loose, single flowered with 2 to 3 flowers in succession, 2/3 to 1 [1.5 to 2.5 cm] long, racemose inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/4 inch [7 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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