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Thrixspermum changlangensis is a critically endangered species of orchid endemic to Arunachal Pradesh in India. It was described as new species by Khyanjeet Gogoi of The orchid society of Eastern Himalaya in 2019. He collected it from Changlang district in 2014. It is an epipyhtic orchid and resembles Thrixspermum calceolus species closely. As of 2022, it was known only from one location in Arunachal Pradesh.
The species was found growing on trees inside broad-leaved evergreen tropical forests at an elevation 500 metres around Nampong area where it was collected, close to border of Myanmar. No other population in the wild were known as of 2022 apart from the collected specimen that flowered in the Regional Orchids Germplasm Conservation and Propagation Centre in Assam. The area of occupancy is estimated to be 4 km2. It was found flowering during May to June.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Thrixspermum changlangensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
