Trisetella escobarii Luer 1986
SECTION Trisetella SUBSECTION Calvicaulis Luer 1989
Photo by © Eric Hunt
Photos by © Ron Parsons
Photo by © Ron Hanko
Photos by © Milan Vagner
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Escobar's Trisetella [Colombian Orchid Enthusiast extrodinaire current]current]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Norte de Santander department of Colombia in wet cloud forests at elevations around 2100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly linear, subacute, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a slender, smooth, erect, [3 to 5 cm] long, congested, successively single, few flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract near the middle.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VI Systematics of Pleurothallis subgen Ancipita, Scopula and Trisetella Luer 1989 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992 photo ok;
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