Trichotosia indragiriensis (Schltr.) Kraenzl. 1911

Lip Detail

Plant Photos by © Mr. Sonny Agus Sumarsono and The Wild Orchids in Sumatra Website

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Indragiri Trichotosia [a river and District of central Sumatra]

Flower Size

Found in Sumatra in lowland forests as a medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with clustered, pendulous stems carrying lanceolate to elliptic, acuminate, almopst glabrous above , red hairy beneath, leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an axillary, nodding, longer than the leaf, terete, hairy, with a few bracts, 8 to 15 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms *Eria indragiriensis Schltr. 1906

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Sumatra JB Comber 2001 drawing good;

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