title: Thrixspermum trichoglottis
text: # Thrixspermum trichoglottis
  
  Thrixspermum trichoglottis is a monopodial orchid in the subfamily Epidendroideae. It is widespread across the eastern Himalayas, Yunnan, Indochina, the Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Malaysia and western Indonesia.
  
  ## Description
  
  Morphologies that have been observed in Pasoh Forest Reserve, Malaysia:
  
  * pseudobulb absent
  * monopodial
  * leaf equally bi-lobulate (young leaves somehow unequal)
  * leaves 15 mm x 65 mm, thin and fleshy
  * stem sheathed with internode, 1 cm
  * stem mildly branched
  * rooting throughout, rhizome heavily branched
  * inflorescence 1-2 flowers, with a long bract about 10 cm long, scale like
  * lateral sepal unevenly rhomboid, 4 x 7 mm
  * dorsal sepal elliptic, 2 x 6 mm
  * lip 7 x 6 mm with only one lobe
  * pubescent at both face of the lobe, with fleshy acute tip
  * yellow-orange spots on the outer surfaces near the lip tip
  * column small, 3 x 4 mm
  * color dimmer than petals and sepals
  * pollinia white
  