!Sanderella discolor (Barb.Rodr.) Cogn. 1905 Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista and Orchidstudium

Plant and Flowers Photo by © Juan Manuel Cellini

Common NameThe Different Colored Sanderella

Flower Size

Found in Bolivia, southeastern Brazil and northwestern Argentina in swamplands often in light moss as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with 3 to 6, clustered, erect, oblong-ovate, truncate apically, lustrous, wrinkled, dark green speckled with purple pseudobulbs carrying oblong-elliptic, acute, subcoriaceous, recurved to subpendent, dark green above, clear green with purplish suffused leaves that blooms in the fall on a racemose, basal, arcuate, to 3.8" [to 9 cm] long, 5 to 18 flowered inflorescence holding all the flowers in the apical third .

Synonyms Parlatorea discolor Barb.Rodr. 1877; Trizeuxis discolor (Barb.Rodr.) Schltr. 1914

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Trizeuxis discolor; Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 drawing ok; Orchidaceae Brasilense Band II Pabst & Dungs 1977 drawing ok; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 32 1977 - 2056 Brieger 1996 drawing/photo good; 100 Orquideas Argentinas Freuler 2005 photo fide;

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