Trichotosia aporina (Hook.f.) Kraenzl. 1911 Photo by © Rogier Van Vuht and hisP Base Orchid Photo Website
Plant and Flower Photos courtesy of Nik Fahmi and his Vortex Orchid PageCopyright ©
Plant and Flowers in Situ Cameron Highlands Malaysia Photo by © David Kuehn
Common Name The Insignificant Trichotosia
Flower Size 5/8" [1.5 cm]
Found in Penninsular Malaysia and Borneo in lower montane forests at elevations of 300 to 2000 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with erect stems covered in red brown hairs carrying basally clasping, green with white speckles, red brown hairy, narrowly lanceolate, acute leaves that are two ranked and at right angles to the stem that blooms in the winter on a very short, usually single flowered inflorescence
Synonyms *Eria aporina Hook.f. 1890; Pinalia aporina (Hook.f.) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Plantarum Vol 21 Hooker 1892 as Eria aporina drawing fide; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957 as Eria aporina; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Seidenfaden & Woods 1992 drawing fide; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 photo ok; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing fide/photo ok; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide
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