Trisetella sauliana Vierling 2020
Photos/TYPE Drawing by Gerhard Vierling © and Die Orchidee, Taxon. Mitt. 6(18): 142 Vierling 2020
EARLY
Common Name or Meaning Saul's Trisetella [Peruvian Orchid enthusiast current]
Flower Size 7" [17.5 cm]
A plant of unknown origin but probably Peru as a miniature to small sized, presumed epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3, thin, sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly leathery, narrowly linear, flat, median line for all the blade, acute, seamless into the base leaf that blooms in the early winter on a slender, greenish to brown tinged, mottled, horizontal, arising from low on the ramicaul, provided with a several bracts, 6.4 to 7.2" [16 to 18 cm] long, successively single, to few flowered, racemose inflorescence with imbricate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
"Trisetella sauliana is similar to Trisetella regia , but differs by the surface of the leaf, which has two long protrusions along the middle furrow (from the basis to the apex), by a single callus on the lip versus two calli by T. regia, as well as by the differently shaped synsepal which in a transverse sectional view is shaped like a tub with horizontal bended margins." Vierling 2020
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Die Orchidee, Taxon. Mitt. 6(18): 150 Vierling 2020 drawing/photo fide;
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