Trichotosia gracilis (Hook. f.) Kraenzl. 1911
Photo © by Peter O'Byrne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Photos by © Art Vogel
Photo by Eric Hunt
Common Name The Delicate Trichotosia
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam and Borneo in lowland forests at elevations of sea-level to 200 meters [in Malaysia stated as moderate elevations in the mountains] as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with stiff, apically narrowing, hairy on margins leaves and hairy on the front of the sheaths that blooms in the summer on a short, successsively 1, to 3 flowered, racemose inflorescence
Synonyms *Eria gracilis Hook. f. 1890; Eria oligantha Hook.f. 1890; Pinalia gracilis (Hook.f.) Kuntze 1891; Pinalia oligantha (Hook.f.) Kuntze 1891; Trichotosia oligantha (Hook.f.) Kraenzl. 1911
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Plantarum Vol 21 Hooker 1892 as Eria gracilis drawing ok; Icones Plantarum Vol 21 Hooker 1892 as Eria oligantha drawing ok; Flora of the Malayan Penninsula Ridley 1908 as Eria oligantha; Flora of the Malayan Penninsula Ridley 1908 as Eria gracilis; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1953; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 corrections as Eria gracilisdrawing good; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Eria gracilis; Opera Botanica #62 Orchid Genera in Thailand X Seidenfaden 1982 drawing good/photo fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing/photo fide; Orchids of Malaya Segerback 1992 photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 photo fide; Living with Orchids in Sumatra Landau 1996 photo fide; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood & Beaman etal 2001; Wild Orchids of the Casmeron Highlands REACH 2009 photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo fide; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman etal & Wood 2001; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide
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