Thursday, December 28, 2023

[Botany • 2023] Thrixspermum alboluteum, T. flammeum, T. praetermissum, etc. (Orchidaceae: Epidendroideae: Aeridinae) • Taxonomic Notes on Thrixspermum, with Five New Species from Thailand

   

Thrixspermum simile Toolmal, Schuit. & Culham, 
T. flammeum Toolmal, Schuit. & Culham, 
T. polystictum Toolmal, Schuit. & Suddee,  
 T. praetermissum Toolmal, Schuit. & Suddee, 
T. alboluteum Toolmal, Schuit. & Culham, 

in Toolmal, Suddee, Culham, Utteridge et Schuiteman, 2023. 

Abstract
Five new species of Thrixspermum (Orchidaceae) are described from Thailand, two from sect. Dendrocolla: T. alboluteum (South-West floristic region), T. praetermissum (East); and three from sect. Thrixspermum: T. simile (South-East), T. flammeum (East), T. polystictum (East). Descriptions, illustrations, notes on distribution, ecology, phenology, conservation status, and morphological comparisons with allied species are provided. Thrixspermum musciflorum and its variety nilagiricum are reduced to the synonymy of T. formosanum. Thrixspermum album is reduced to the synonymy of T. pulchellum. We select a lectotype and an epitype for T. trichoglottis (Hook.f.) Kuntze and provide a detailed description of this common but so far incompletely known species.

Aeridinae, section Dendrocolla, section Thrixspermum, Monocots

เอื้องแมงมุมส้ม 
Thrixspermum flammeum Toolmal, Schuit. & Culham


เอื้องแมงมุมเหลืองปากหนา
Thrixspermum simile Toolmal, Schuit. & Culham

เอื้องแมงมุมเหลืองปากกระ
Thrixspermum polystictum Toolmal, Schuit. & Suddee  


เอื้องตะขาบเหลืองตะนาวศรี 
Thrixspermum alboluteum Toolmal, Schuit. & Culham 

เอื้องตะขาบขาว
 Thrixspermum praetermissum Toolmal, Schuit. & Suddee




Nopparut Toolmal, Somran Suddee, Alastair Culham, Timothy M. A. Utteridge and André Schuiteman. 2023. Taxonomic Notes on Thrixspermum (Orchidaceae: Aeridinae), with Five New Species from Thailand.  Phytotaxa. 601(3); 223–262. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.601.3.3