!Trichoceros antennifer [Humb. & Bonpl.] Kunth 1816
Photo in situ Loja 2400 meters by Jay Pfahl
Photo by Scott McGregor.
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Common Name The Antennae Trichoceros
Flower Size under 1" [under 2.4 cm]
Found from Colombia, Loja province of Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia as a small sized, wandering, cool to cold growing terrestrial or lithophytic orchid found on dry, exposed, steep mossy slopes amidst shrubs in cloud forests at altitudes of 1800 to 4100 meters with a creeping, distant, ovoid, small pseudobulb, almost obscured in the center with several, basal pairs of distichous, imbricating, ovate-lanceolate to ovate-elliptic, long acute, coriaceous, gray green, foliaceous sheaths, and carrying a single, apical small, rudimentary leaf and blooms on an axillary, lateral, much longer than the leaf, to 10" [25 cm] long, 1 to 4 flowered inflorescence held well above the leaves with ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate bracts and flowers that open in succession occuring in the late fall through spring.
Synonyms *Epidendrum antenniferum Humb. & Bonpl 1806; Trichoceros armillatus Rchb.f 1856; Trichoceros muscifera Kraenzel 1906; Trichoceras parvifloris H.B.K. 1816;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854 as T parviflorus drawing; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854 as T armillatus drawing fide; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1856 as T armillatus; Xenia Orchidaceae Vol 3 Reichenbach 1878 as T parviflorus; Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1878 as T parviflorus; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as T parviflorus; AOS Bulletin Vol 37 # 6 1968 photo fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 597 Dodson 1984 drawing ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 57 No 2 1988 photo as T parviflorus; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 as T parviflorus photo fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 195 Bennett & Christenson 1993 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 30 1841 - 1904 Brieger 1994 photo drawing/fide; Orquideologia Vol 22 #2 2002 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 71 No 3 2002 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 drawing/photo fide; Australian Orchid Review Vol 72 No 4 2007 photo; Orchid Species Of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Orquideas del Peru Freuler 2010 photo fide; Orchideen Series C Band 74 Thiv & Worz 2012 as T sp photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 83 #7 2014 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 80 #2 2016 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #3 2016 as T parviflorusdrawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 81 #2 2017 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 # 1 2019 photo fide;
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