Trisetella cordeliae Luer 1989 SECTION Trisetella SUBSECTION Triaristella
Photo by © Milan Wagner
Flower Photo by © Eric Hunt
Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Cordelia's Trisetella [Mrs Cordelia Webb discoverer of species]
Flower Size .64" [1.6 cm]
Found in central Peru at elevations around 1800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, densly caespitose, cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths carrying a single apical, erect, fleshy, semiterete acute leaf and blooms in the spring on an erect, 2" [5 cm] long, congested verrucose raceme that arises from low on the ramicaul that has a succession of a few single flowers that are all held well above the leaves.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VI Systematics of Pleurothallis subgen Ancipita, Scopula and Trisetella Luer 1989 drawing fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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