Trisetella hoeijeri Luer & Hirtz 1986 SECTION Fissura Luer 1989
Photo by © Milan Vágner
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Common Name Hoeijer's Trisetella [Swedish discoverer of species 20th cen]
Flower Size 1.4" [3.5 cm]
Found in southeastern Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations around 1800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, densly caespitose, cool growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls that are enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, ribbed, tubular sheaths that blooms on an erect, 1.5" [3.75 cm] long, very slender, smooth, congested raceme arising from low on the ramicaul that has a succession of solitary flowers held well above the leaves and occuring at any time of the year.
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 63 #1 1999 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 2 2005 photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 78 #4 2009 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 82 #3 2013 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 82 #12 2013 photo fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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