Trisetella escobarii Luer 1986 SECTION Trisetella SUBSECTION Calvicaulis Luer 1989
Photo by © Eric Hunt
Photos by © Ron Parsons
Photo by © Ron Hanko
Photos by © Milan Vagner
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Escobar's Trisetella [Colombian Orchid Enthusiast extrodinaire died 2009]current]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Norte de Santander department of Colombia in wet cloud forests at elevations around 2100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly linear, subacute, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a slender, smooth, erect, [3 to 5 cm] long, congested, successively single, few flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract near the middle.
"Readily identified by the combination of long leaves to .2" [5 mm] wide, smooth peduncles shorter than the leaves, a yellow dorsal sepal with three purple stripes, red purple lateral sepals with short, subapical tails, broad petals and an oblong lip with undulate carinae." Luer 1989
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VI Systematics of Pleurothallis subgen Ancipita, Scopula and Trisetella Luer 1989 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992 photo ok;
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