Notylia trisepala Lindl. & Paxton 1852 Photo by Daniel Jimenez

Common Name The Three Sepal Notylia

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in Chiapas Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica at elevations of 20 to 1000 meters as a miniature to just small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with ovoid pseudobulbs enveloped almost compeltely by leaf bearing sheaths and carrying asingle, apical, erect, somewhat fleshy, abaxially carinate, elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter through spring on a pendant, racemose, 4.8 to 10" [12 to 25 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence carrying successively opening flowers

Synonyms Notylia turialbae Schltr.1923

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 145. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as N turialbae; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 2 Hamer 1974 drawing/photo okish; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 886 Hamer 1983 drawing ok; Family #39 Orchidaceae: Tribe Maxillarieae: subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae. Fieldiana, Atwood & Retana 1999

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