Thrixspermum filiforme

Thrixspermum filiforme Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 682 (1891).

Thrixspermum filiforme Kuntze, Photo by Khairul Hafizi

its native range is Peninsula Thailand to Peninsula Malaysia, N. Borneo. 

Latin Name: 

Thrixspermum filiforme Kuntze 

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Cheirorchis filiformis (Hook.f.) Carr

Cordiglottis filiformis (Hook.f.) Garay

Dendrocolla filiformis (Hook.f.) Ridl.

Epidendrum subulatum J.Koenig

Limodorum subulatum Willd.

Papilionanthe subulata (Willd.) Garay

Sarcochilus filiformis Hook.f.

English Name:

The Thread Shaped Cordiglottis (refers to the leaves).

Description: 

With a short stem enveloped completely by imbricate leaf bearing sheaths and carrying a few, terete, often purplish leaves that blooms at any time of the year on an axillary, from near the base of the stem, purplish, slender, to 10 cm long, several flowered inflorescence with all the flowers held in the apical 2 cm and held in a loose corymb.

Distribution:

Borneo, Malaya, Thailand.

Ecological:

In lowlands as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte.

Flowering times:

Bloome at any time of the year.

Flower size:

1.0 cm

Cultivation:

Warm growing epiphyte, requires light position

Typus:

Reference: 

- http://theplantlist.org

- https://www.ipni.org/n/660197-1

- http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:660197-1

- http://www.orchidspecies.com/cordfiliformis.htm.

- https://wsbeorchids.org/2020/pleurothallis-gratiosa-365-days-of-orchids-day-1314/