!Trevoria chloris F. Lehm. 1897 Photo by Hans-Gerhardt Seeger

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Common Name The Green Trevoria

Flower Size 4" [10 cm]

Found in Colombia in dense, humid forests as a warm to cool growing epiphyte at elevations of 1000 to 1700 meters with ovoid or stretched, pyriform psuedobulbs with a single, apcial, plicate, shortly petiolate, articulated to the base, oblong-elliptic, acute or acuminate leaf with a pendant, basal, laxly few [3 to 4] flowered, to 8" [to 20 cm] long, terete, green inflorescence with glumaceous, lanceolate, acuminate bracts andf showy non-resupinate flowers.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 37/38 pg 2309 - 2436 Brieger 1999 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 22 #2 2002 photo fide;

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