Trichoglottis tricostata J.J.Sm. 1907

Photo by © Comber and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

EARLY

Common Name The Three Ribbed Trichoglottis

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Java in moist forests at elevations of 700 to 1800 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with climbing and branching or sometimes hanging and stiff stems carrying stiff, elliptic-linear, apically bilobed, rounded lobes with a small tooth between them leaves that blooms in the early spring on opposite the leaves, several along the stem, 1 to 5 flowered per inflorescence

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo fide

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