!Trichopilia tortilis Lindley 1836
Red Throat Version Photos by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website
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Common Name The Twisted Trichopilia
Flower Size to 6" when flattened [10 cm]
A medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphytic species found in damp tropical forests at elevations up to 1500 meters with oblong to cylindric, laterally compressed pseudobulbs concealed by one or more brown spotted basal bracts carrying a single, subcoriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, abaxially carinate leaf with a conduplicate petiole at the base that flowers on a basal, pendulous, 2 to 4" [5 to 10 cm] long, slender, 1 to 3 flowered inflorescence, arising on a newly matured pseudobulb, that has tubular, scarious bracts and large, showy, fragrant, waxy flowers occurring in the spring and summer and comes from Mexico to Costa Rica.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Edwards's Bot. Reg. 22: t. 1863. 1836; Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1865; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1298 Dodson 1985; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1494 Dodson 1992; Fieldiana Biology, Flora Costa Ricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae, subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae Atwood & Mora 1997; Australian Orchid Review Vol 68 No 1 2003 photo; Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 1 2004 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 2 2005 photo; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 No 5 2007 photo
Trichopilia tortilis Lindley 1836 var alba
An Albino version of the previous species.
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