Thrixspermum acutilobum?

naoki · Nov 23, 2014

This one came from Ooi Leng Sun (well, I guess it is obvious from the plant photo below). I'm not sure if it is the correct ID. It is pretty different from

https://orchid.unibas.ch/phpMyHerba...cutilobum/Smith_Johannes_Jacobus/specimen.php

I couldn't find much information about this species through google, neither. It flowers frequently, but the flower lasts only 1 day. The glandular hairs on the lip is pretty cool under magnification.

Thrixspermum acutilobum? on Flickr

Thrixspermum acutilobum? plant on Flickr

Ooops, I forgot to crop the pretty bad composition for the plant photo....

Migrant13 · Nov 23, 2014

Wow that one is really cool. Those hairs surrounding the lip must look very enticing to a pollinator. Any fragrance?

NYEric · Nov 23, 2014

Nice. Did you look thru all the Thrixpermum species on IOSPE?

gnathaniel · Nov 23, 2014

Awesome species and photos! Thrixspermum trichoglottis is the closest-looking one I've seen but this is a bewildering genus.

SlipperFan · Nov 23, 2014

Crystalline is the word that comes to mind.

naoki · Nov 24, 2014

Sorry, I didn't check fragrance. I'll check next time.

Eric, I just went through IOSPE now. I got interested in this genus just recently, and I don't know well about this group. There are quite interesting variation within the genus!

Thanks, Nat! T. trichoglottis seems to be the closest among the ones in IOSPE.