Trisetella dressleri (Luer) Luer 1980 SECTION Trisetella SUBSECTION Calvicaulis Luer 1989
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TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Dressler's Trisetella [American Botanist current]
Flower Size .2" [5mm]
Found in Panama in cloudforests at elevations of 650 to 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 thin, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, thickly coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute leaf that is narrowly cuneate below into the base that can bloom at any time of the year on an erect, slender, smooth, 1.8" [4.5 cm] long, racemose inflorescence witha succession of single flowers. succession of single flowers.
Synonyms *Masdevallia dressleri Luer 1976; Triaristella dressleri (Luer) Luer 1978; Triaristellina dressleri (Luer) Rauschert 1983
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VI Systematics of Pleurothallis subgen Ancipita, Scopula and Trisetella Luer 1989 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 8 2003 photo fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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