Trisetella portillae A.Doucette 2016 SECTION Trisetella SUBSECTION Calvicaulis Luer 1989 Photo/TYPE Drawing by Alphonso Doucette Common Name Portilla's Trisetella [Ecuadorian Orchid dealer current]
Flower Size .32" [8 mm] wide
Found in Morona-Santiago Ecuador at leevatiions around 800 meters as a miniature sized, warm growing, caespitose epiphyte with short ramicauls enveloped by tubular, papery sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, linear, acute, narrowing below intothe base leaf that blooms in the early spring on an erect, peduncle scabrous, 2 to 2.24" [5 to 5.6 cm] long, successively single, few flowered inflorescence with shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
"The species is most similar to Tristella gemmata but differs in the pandurate calyx
and scabrose peduncle." A Doucette 2016
Synonyms References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Phytotaxa 257: 242 A Doucette 2016 photo/drawing fide
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