Trisetella andreettae Luer 1986 SECTION Trisetella SUBSECTION Calvicaulis Luer 1989
Photos © by Milan Vágner
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Andreetta's Trisetella [Discoverer of species - Saliesian priest]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in southern Ecuador in tall rainforests along streams at an elevation of 1600 meters as a mini-miniature sized, caespitose, cool growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 loose tubular sheaths carrying a single apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptic, subacute leaf that has purple spotting on the underside and blooms on a slender, erect, 1.2 to 1.6" [3 to 4 cm] long, successively 2 to 5 flowered, racemose, smooth inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul and holding the flower well above the leaf of single successive opening flowers.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VI Systematics of Pleurothallis subgen Ancipita, Scopula and Trisetella Luer 1989 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 76 #2 2012 photo fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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