Trisetella pachycaudata Mogr.-Herrera & Baquero 2021
SECTION Trisetella SUBSECTION Triaristella Rchb.f 1876
Photo/TYPE Drawing by Mogr.-Herrera & Baquero and Lankesteriana 21: 272 Mogr.-Herrera & Baquero 2021
LATE
Common Name The Thick Sepaline-Tailed Trisetella
Flower Size
Found in Loja and Zamora-Chinchipe provinces of Ecuador at elevations around 1900 to 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing, caespitose epihyte with olive green adaxially, speckled with purple abaxially, erect, linear, conduplicate, , fleshy, semi-trerete, acutely minutely retuse apically, wedge-shped basally leaves that blooms in the late spring and summer on an erect, slender, verrucose, enveloped basally by a tubular bract, arising from low on the ramicaul, 1" [2.5 cm] long, rachis short, congested, successively single, 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence.
"Most similar to Trisetella strumosa , from which it differs in a the small plant, up to .88" [22 mm] (vs. medium in size, up to 2" [5 cm in size], the entire sepals (vs. minutely ciliate), transversely ovate dorsal sepal (vs. transversely obovate), glabrous sepals with raised veins (vs. minutely short-pubescent veins not raised), the lateral sepals connate into a concave synsepal (vs. connate into a retrorse synsepal with a basal mentum), thickly clavate tails of the sepals (vs. clavate), petals oblong dilated at the base of the labellar margin (vs. oblong-ovate), the apex of the petals truncate, cuspidate, erose at the upper margin, and entire at the lower margin (vs. truncate, tridentate), lip rose-colored channeled at the center of the disc (vs. not channeled disc), and the clinandrium crenate (vs. entire)." Mogr.-Herrera & Baquero 2021
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Lankesteriana 21: 272 Mogr.-Herrera & Baquero 2021
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