Trichoglottis amesiana

Example of flowers

 Trichoglottis amesiana (L.O. Williams) is a plant that is found in the Philippines and grows in pendulous and monopodial form. They can reach up to 60 cm in length, and their leathery leaves can measure up to 14cm long to1.5 cm wide. The flowers are brown, with green segments at the edges, and a white labellum with a purple blotch. The plant can bear up to 10 flowers.

Specimen used for DNA extraction

This type of orchid is endemic to the mountains of Cavite and Nueva Ecija and Nueva Vizcaya in central Luzon. It grows as an epiphyte in dense shadowed forest, at elevation from 1000 to 1200 meters.

Example of flowers

Sources:

http://www.orchidspecies.com/trichamesiana.htm

http://collections.si.edu/search/results.jspq=record_ID:nmnhbotany_2129001

http://zipcodezoo.com/Plants/T/Trichoglottis_amesiana/

http://www.oocities.org/zingiber2003/conserve/orchidaceae/orchids/Trichoglottis_amesiana.html

https://armstronggenetics3.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/genblog13.jpg

http://www.orchidspecies.com/trichamesiana.htm

4 thoughts on “Trichoglottis amesiana

  1. Overall, this post is well designed and the content is good. But there are areas in which it can be improved.

    1) No authority is provided (it should be after the first use of the species name in the body of the post.

    2) All instances where the species name appears, it should be italicized.

    3) Please review the post carefully for misspelled words (“abellum”, “lethery”, for example). Have a friend read over post to help find areas where the language can be cleaned up and the organization can be improved. In particular, part of the second paragraph contains info that seems better suited to the first paragraph.

    4) What country(ies) are these locales found in?

    5) While it is fine to include the links to images in the captions (they could also be included in the References section), I would prefer the captions to make clear as to whether the pictures are examples of the flowers and/or the specimen used for DNA extraction.

    6) The extraction specimen is flowering and it seems to be this species (I still have to look carefully at a very small part of the flower to help verify it’s identity). I’m having some difficulty getting a well-focused image of the flowers (they are about 1 cm across) but if I do, I’ll post to media library.

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