Trichotosia brevipedunculata (Ames & C.Schweinf.) J.J.Wood 1993

Plant and Flowers Photos by © Th. Nordhausen and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbarium Website

Common Name or Meaning The Short Pedunculate Trichotosia

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Sabah & Sarawak Borneo in lower montane forests at elevations of 1100 to 2100 meters as a small to large sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with erect stems carrying, distichous, very thick, rigid, leathery narrowly elliptic, unequally bilobed leaves that blooms on through the leaf bases opposite the leaves, short, rather dense, several flowered inflorescence

Synonyms *Eria brevipedunculata Ames & C.Schweinf. 1920

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing/photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011

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