!Trias oblonga Lindley 1830 Photo by © Amos Tan and His Asiatic Green Orchid Website

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Common Name The Oblong Trias

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

This mini-miniature sized, cool to warm growing, epiphytic species is from Assam, India, Bangladesh, Burma and Thailand at moderate elevations and has angular pseudobulbs and a single, apical leaf and blooms a basal, erect to arching, to 1" [up to 2.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence that holds the short-lived flower close to the pseudobulb and occurs in the spring. Grow in cool to hot temperatures, with moderate light, high humidity, ample year round water and mounted on cork or tree fern.

Synonyms Bulbophyllum moulmiense Rchb.f 1861; *Bulbophyllum oblongum Rchb.f 1864; Dendrobium tripterum Wall. 1890; Trias ovata Lindl. 1830

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/95; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; The Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007

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