Trisetella hoeijeri Luer & Hirtz 1986 SECTION Fissura Luer 1989
Photo by © Milan Vágner
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Common Name Hoeijer's Trisetella [Swedish discoverer of species 20th cen]
Flower Size 1.4" [3.5 cm]
Found in Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations around 1800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, densly caespitose, cool growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls that are enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, ribbed, tubular sheaths and carrying an erect, coriaceous, narrowly linear, acute, gradually narrowing below into the base leaf that blooms at any time of the year on an erect, arising from low on the ramicaul, peduncle very slender, smooth, 1.6 to 2.4" [4 to 6 cm] long, congested raceme, successively single, 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence held well above the leaves and with longer than the pedicel floral bracts.
"The flower is unique in the genus. The lateral sepals are oblong, free and widely spread and the color is silvery white with 3 thin, red lines on each." 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; Orchid Digest Vol 63 #1 1999 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 2 2005 photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 78 #4 2009 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 82 #3 2013 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 82 #12 2013 photo fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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