Barbosella trilobata Pabst 1956 SUBGENUS Cardinella Photo by J & L Orchids Website

Common Name The Three Lobed Barbosella [refers to the shape of the lip]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Brazil in wet montane forests at elevations around 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with ascending ramicauls enveloped by 1 to 2, thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, suberect, thickly coricaeous, ellipticval, acute, cuneate below intothe petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a slender, erect, .6 to .68" [1.5 to 1.7 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with a bract below the middle and an oblique, acute floral bract.

Synonyms Restrepiopsis trilobata (Pabst) Luer 1981

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XX Luer 2000 drawing fide;

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