Trisetella vittata (Luer) Luer 1980 SECTION Trisetella SUBSECTION Calvicaulis Luer 1989
Photos by © S Manning and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
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Common Name The Longitudinaly Striped Sepal Trisetella
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations of 1900 to 2100 meters with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 thin, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, bluish green-purplish beneath, narrowly elliptical, acute to subacute leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on an erect, 2" [5 cm] long, slender, smooth, congested, racemose inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a succession of 2 to 3 single flowers.
Synonyms Masdevallia vittata Luer 1989; Triaristella vittata (Luer) Luer 1978; Triaristellina vittata (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; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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