| Trichosalpinx ciliaris photo C. Solimbergo |
| taxonomy | described by | (Lindley) Luer, Carlyle August |
| published in | Phytologia 54 ( 5 ) : 395 november 1983 | |
| family | Orchidaceae | |
| subfamily | Epidendroideae | |
| tribe | Epidendreae | |
| subtribe | Pleurothallidinae | |
| genus | Trichosalpinx Luer 1983 | |
| metabolism | C3 pathway, stomata of the leaves are open during the day. | |
| (K.Silvera, L.S. Santiago, J.C. Cushman, K. Winter - International Symposium on Plant Biology, August 2013) | ||
| it is useful give the soluble mineal nutriens, on the roots. | ||
| native of | origins |
forests in the Caribbean, Mexico (Campeche, Chiapas, Colima, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo, |
| Tabasco, San Luis Potosì), Belize (Toledo), Guatemala (Alta Verapaz, Izabal), Honduras (Comayagua, | ||
| Cortès, Atlantida), Nicaragua (Jinotega), Costa Rica (Cartago, Limòn), Panama, Suriname, Guyana, | ||
| Venezuela (Portoguesa), Colombia, Ecuador (Napo, Morona-Santiago), Peru, Bolivia (Santa Cruz) | ||
| altitude | 50 - 1969 m (165 - 6498 ft) | |
| habitat | climate informations from Amatenango de la Frontera (Chiapas, Messico) | |
| Köppen climate classification : Aw, tropical savanna climate (with a dry season and a rainy season) | ||
| the weather station data (temperatures are calculated for an altitude of 1000 m / 3300 ft) : | ||
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| photoperiod | in Amatenango de la Frontera this orchid bloom with a photoperiod, that varies during the year, from 13 h 01 m' to 10 h 59 m' | |
| life form | epiphyte | |
| brightness | partial shade to low | |
| inflorescence | length | 5 - 6 cm (2" - 2.4"), from the base of the leaf |
| nr flowers | 5 - 8 | |
| size | single flower 1 L 0.5 cm (0.4" L 0.2") - inflorescence 2.5 L 1 cm (1" L 0.4") | |
| duration | inflorescence ≈ days | |
| time | to bloom from birth, ≈ 20 days | |
| CITES | appendix | II |
