
Trichoglottis triflora [Guillaumin]Garay & Seidenfadden 1972
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Common Name The Three-Flowered Trichoglottis - In China Mao She Lan
Flower Size 1/5” [.5 cm]
Found in southwestern Thailand and Vietnam in forests on tree trunks at elevations of 1100 to 1200 meters as a monopodial, miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with clustered erect stems carrying 6 to 7, distichous-equitant, recurved, often conduplicate, obtuse and unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms on a short, axillary, 2 to 5 flowered inflorescence with the flowers held close to the stem occuring in the spring and summer.
Synonyms *Saccolabium triflorum Guillaumin 1956
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing ok; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide
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