Thrixspermum leucarachne Ridl. 1896 SECTION Thrixspermum

Lip Detail Photos by © André Schuiteman, courtesy of Jaap Vermeulen and Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website

Common Name or Meaning The White Spider Thrixspermum

Flower Size 3.1" [7.6 cm]

Found in Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Malasia and Sumatra at elevations around 1500 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with a monopodial stem carrying several, linear, lorate, obtusely and unevenly bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the spring on a longer than the leaves, 7.2" [18 cm] long, successively many flowered inflorescence completely enveloped by distichous, imbricate, acute, triangular, conduplicate bracts from which a single large, flower arises

Synonyms Sarcochilus leucarachne (Ridl.) F.N.Williams 1904

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1963; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 corrections drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; aos bULLETIN vOL 39 #10 1970 PHOTO FIDE; Opera Botanica #95 Seidenfaden 1988 drawing good; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Wood & Seidenfaden 1992 drawing ok; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo good; Wild Orchids of the Cameron Highlands REACH 2009 photo ok;

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