Trichoglottis seidenfadenii Aver. 1988 Photo courtesy of David P. Banks Australia Copyright Control ©

to

Common Name Seidenfadden's Trichoglottis [German Taxomonist current]

Flower Size 4/5 to 1 1/4" [2 to 3 cm]

A medium sized, warm to hot growing monopodial epiphyte that is found in Vietnam and Thailand in semi-deciduous and deciduous dry lowland forests and savana-like woodlands at elevations of sealevel to 700 meters with elongated stems carrying alternate, oblong to elliptic, apically unequally bilobed, narrowly linear leaves that blooms on a sessile, axillary, single flowered inflorescence with the flowers held close to the stem and occuring in the summer.

This species is often sold with the trade name T sagarikii an unpublished epiteth made popular by Jones & Scully in the 70's. It has also been sold as T tomentosa, a properly published name that was preceded by T seidenfadenii.

Synonyms Trichoglottis sagarikii hort; Trichoglottis tomentosa Seidenf. 1988

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 5 1979 photo as T sagarikii; Orchids Australia Vol 10 No 5 1998 photo; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 8 2005 photo;

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------