Trisetella didyma (Luer) Luer 1980 Photo courtesy of Walter Teague.

Common Name The Twinned Trisetella [refers to the pair of approximate tails of the lateral sepals]

Flower Size 1 3/5" [4 cm] tall

Found in Southern Ecuador in cloudforests at elevations of 1450 to 2500 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erectramicauls enveloped baslly by 2 to 3, thin tubulbr sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, dark green, suffused with purple beneath, acute to subacute leaf and blooms on a slender, erect to suberect, 1 3/4" to 3 3/5" [4.5 to 9 cm] long, inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul and having 2 to 3, successive flowers one at a time.

Synonyms *Masdevallia didyma Luer 1978; Triaristella [Luer] Luer 1978; Triaristellina didyma [Luer] Rauschert 1983

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