Trisetella nodulifera Luer & Hirtz 1989 SECTION Trisetella SUBSECTION Calvicaulis Luer 1989
Photos by Ecuagenera and their Ecuadorian Orchid Website
Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Nodule-Bearing Trisetella [refers to the apex of the lip]
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in southeastern Ecuador and north central Peru at elevations around 900 meters as a mini-miniature sized, densly caespitose, warm growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 thin, tubular sheaths carrying a single apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, semi-terete, channeled narrowly elliptic to linear, acute leaf that blooms on an erect, slender, smooth, 1.6" to 2.4" [4 to 6 long, congested racemose inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul that has a succession of solitary flowers held well above the leaves occuring in the fall.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VI Systematics of Pleurothallis subgen Ancipita, Scopula and Trisetella Luer 1989 drawing fide; Orchid Species Of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 photo fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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