Anacheilium trulla (Rchb.f.) Withner & P.A.Harding 2004
Photo By © Patricia Harding
Drawing By © Jane Herbst/Withner & Harding
Common Name The Scooped Anacheilium [refers to the lip shape]
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Mexico in oak or pine-oak forests occasionally on rocks at elevations of 300 to 1500 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte and occasional lithophyte with loosely clustered, pyriform to ellipsoid, laterally compressed pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, acute, narrowly elliptic leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on a racemose, 4 to 10 flowered inflorescence carrying spice scented flowers.
Closely related toAnacheilium cochleatum but A trulla is a smaller, more compact plant that has shorter sepals and petals and a paler lip.
Synonyms Encyclia trulla (Rchb.f.) Christenson 1996; Epidendrum langlassei Schltr.1918; *Epidendrum trulla Rchb.f. 1856; Prosthechea trulla (Rchb.f.) W.E.Higgins 1997 publ. 1998
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Bonplandia 4: 214 Rchb.f 1856 as Epidendrum trulla;
Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 36(2): 404 Schlechter 1918 as Epidendrum langlassei;
Lindleyana 11: 222 Christenson 1996 as Encyclia trulla;
Phytologia 82: 376 W E Higgins 1997 publ. 1998 as Prosthechea trulla;
*The Cattleyas and Their Relatives; The Debateable Epidendrum Withner and Harding 2004 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 9 2008 photo fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 80 #2 2016 as Prothechea trulla
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