Trias nasuta [Rchb.f]Stapf. 1928 Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Bob Fallon Copyright © , and the Dr Leslie Garay Archives

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Common Name The Nose Trias

Flower Size 1 1/4" [ 3 cm]

This epiphyte, found in Burma, Thailand, and Vietnam in evergreen lowland forests at elevations below 1500 meters as a miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte requiring light shade has lumpy, crowded pseudobulbs carrying a sessile, lanceolate, thick leaf and blooms on a very short, basal, single flowered inflorescence that holds the large flower next to the pseudobulb and occurs in the fall and winter.

Synonyms *Bulbophyllum nasutum Rchb. f.; Phyllorchis nasuta (Rchb. f.) Kuntze 1891; Trias vitrina Rolfe 1895

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/95 as Bulbophyllum nasutum; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 as T vitrina drawing, photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 78 No 1 2009 photo; The Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007

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