Trichocentrum viridulum Pupulin 1998SECTION Trichocentrum Photo by © Rodrigo Escobar

TYPE DrawingTYPE Drawing by © Pupulin and The Epidendra Website TYPE Drawing by © Pupulin and The Epidendra Website

Side View of Flower Photo by © Karl Senghas

Common Name The Pale Green Trichocentrum

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in Santander Colombia at elevations around 1900 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphtye with small, linear-elliptic pseduobulbs enveloped by 3 papyraceous sheaths and carrying a single, fleshy, green, elliptic-ovate to oblong, obtuse to minutely retuse sesile leaf that blooms in the summer on a terete, to 1" [2.5 cm] long, single [rarely 2] flowered inflorescence with ovate acute floral bracts

This species is part of the T pulchrum group which includes T longicalcaratum, T obcordilabium, T pulchrum and T loyalicum but differs in that the keels of the obovate lip are glabrous or obscurely puberulent and the floral segments are greenish white and never have purple spots or blotches.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992 as T pulchrum photo fide; *Novon 8(3): 285, f. 2. 1998 Pupulin drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 69 #3 2000 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 44-45 pg 2763 - 2898 Brieger 2001 photo; Harvard Papers in Botany Vol 21 #2 Cetzal-Ix Carnevalli and Romero-Gonzalez 2016 Synopsis of the Trichocentrum Clade;

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