Trisetella strumosa Luer & Andreetta 1989 SECTION Trisetella SUBSECTION Triaristella Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

Flower Closeup Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website.

Common Name The Swollen Trisetella

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in the Cordillera del Condor Ecuador at elevations of 1500 to 1650 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with short, slender ramicauls envelopped by 2 to 3 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, fleshy, linear, semi-terete, acute, gradually narrowing below into the base leaf that blooms in the fall on a erect, slender, congested, verrucose, 3 t o4" [7.5 to 10 cm] long, successively single, few flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract below the middle.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VI Luer 1989 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 photo fide

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