Trichopilia hennisiana Kranzlin 1908

Flower Closeup Photos by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website

Another Clone Photo courtesy of Oliver Lenhard and his Orchideen Website

Another Clone Photo courtesy of Tennis Maynard

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Common Name Hennis' Trichopilia [German Orchid Collector 18-1900's]

Flower Size 5" [13 cm]

Found in Colombia and Ecuador at elevations around 1400 to 2500 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with oblong to ovate, laterally compressed, ancipitous pseudobulbs becoming longitudinally rugose with age carrying a single, apical, oblong-lanceolate, acute, somewhat twisted leaf that blooms in the spring on a basal, inclining to pendant, 3 to 5 flowered, racemose inflorescence carrying 3 to 5 fragrant flowers all held towards the apex.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Native Colombian ORchids Vol 4 COS 1992 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 1 2004 photo; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 photo ok; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006;

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