Trisetella escobarii Luer 1986

SECTION Trisetella SUBSECTION Calvicaulis Luer 1989 Photo by © Ron Hanko

Common Name Escobar's Trisetella [Colombian Orchid Enthusiast extrodinaire current]current]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Norte de Santander Colombia in wet cloud forests at elevations around 2100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly linear, subacute, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a slender, smooth, erect, [3 to 5 cm] long, congested, successively single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract near the middle.

CAUTION I cannot tell from this photo if this is truely T escobarii so please use with caution

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Pleurothallis subgen Ancipita, Scopula and Trisetella Vol 6 1989 drawing ok; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992 photo ok;

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