Triphora hassleriana (Cogn. ex Chodat & Hassl.) Schltr. 1925
Photos by © Stig Dalstrom
Type Drawing by © Dodson and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name Hassler's Triphora
Flower Size .08" [2 mm]
Found in Puerto Rico, Mexico Ecuador, Argentina and Paraguay in tropical moist forests at elevations of 50 to 1500 meters as a small sized, hot to cool growing, mycotropic terrestrial with fleshy tuber-like roots giving rise to an erect, stem enveloped by 2 to 4, ovate, acute foliaceous sheaths and carrying apcically loosely to 7 flowered inflorescence with foliaceous bracts similar to the sheaths below.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 drawing fide; Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 348 Dodson 1980 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 drawing/photo fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018
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