Trisetella strumosa Luer & Andreetta 1989 SECTION Trisetella SUBSECTION Triaristella
Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website
Photo by © Eric Hunt
Photos by Milan Vágner
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Swollen Trisetella
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in the Cordillera del Condor of Ecuador at elevations of 1500 to 1650 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with short, slender ramicauls envelopped by 2 to 3 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, fleshy, linear, semi-terete, acute, gradually narrowing below into the base leaf that blooms in the fall on a erect, slender, congested, verrucose, 3 to 4" [7.5 to 10 cm] long, successively single, few flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract below the middle.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VI Systematics of Pleurothallis subgen Ancipita, Scopula and Trisetella Luer 1989 drawing 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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