Trichopilia marginata Henfr. 1851 -52 Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler
Trichopilia coccinea Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by Dan Newman of Hanging Gardens
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Common Name The Rimmed Trichopilia
Flower Size 4" [10 cm]
Found from Guatemala to Colombia in premontane and lower montane rain forests on shady tree trunks as a medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte at elevations of 800 to 1500 meters with clustered, linear, strongly compressed pseudobulbs enveloped belwo by a few non-foliaceous, sheaths and carrying a single, apical, lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, coriaceous, acute, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a 3 to 4, basal, arching, to pendant, short to 2" [to 5 cm] , single flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb with highly fragrant flowers.
Synonyms Trichopilia coccinea Warsz.ex Lindl. & Paxt. 1851-52; Trichopilia crispa Lindl. 1857; Trichopilia lepida W.G. Sm 1874
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list ,
Bonplandia Rchb.f 1856; Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1865; Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1865 as T crispa; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 17: 76. Panama Schlechter 1922; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 251. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 3 1970 photo; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1297 Dodson 1985 drawing ok; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1497 Atwood 1992 drawing fide; Fieldiana Biology, Flora Costa Ricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae, subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae Atwood & Mora 1997; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2002; Australian Orchid Review Vol 68 No 1 2003 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 3 2006 photo; Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 1 Morales 2009 as T x crispa photo fide;
Trichopilia marginata var. lepida (W.G.Sm.) H.J.Veitch 1893
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