Trigonidium latifolium Lindl.1837

Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista and Orchidstudium

Common Name The Broad Leafed Trigonidium

Flower Size 1” [2.5 cm]

Found in eastern and Southern Brazil as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with 1.2 to 2.8” [3 to 7 cm] between each ovoid-oblong, strongly laterally compressed, yeloow green, smooth becoming rugose with age pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, erect-patent, obovate to spatulate, abruptly acute to somewhat obtuse, plicate leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, 6” [15 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence enveloped by membranaceous-coriaceous, acuminate, becoming smaller towards the base bracts

Synonyms Maxillaria elluziae Molinari 2015

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 2 Pabst & Dungs 1977 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen lieferung 29 1777 - 1840 Brieger 1994;

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