Trisetella abbreviata Luer 1980 SECTION Trisetella SUBSECTION Calvicaulis Luer 1989
Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Orchid Photo Website
Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler
Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Shortened Trisetella [refers to the short leaves and floral segments]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Endemic to southern Ecuador in wet montane forests at elevations of 1200 to 1500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 thin, tubular sheaths carrying carrying a single apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly linear, semiterete, acute leaf that gives rise to a succession of a few [2 to 3] single flowers borne in a congested raceme with a filiform erect, smooth to faintly scabrous peduncle arising from low on the ramicaul that appears in the winter.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VI Systematics of Pleurothallis subgen Ancipita, Scopula and Trisetella Luer 1989 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 82 #3 2013 photo fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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