Trichopilia galeottiana A.Rich. & Gal. 1845
Photo by © Dressler and The Epidendra Website
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Common Name Galeotti's Trichopilia [Belgian Botanist and Plant Collector 1800's]
Flower Size 2 1/5" [5.5 cm]
Found in Mexico and Guatemala in premontane rainforests on larger branches at elevations of 1000 to 1200 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with subcylindric, ancipitous pseudobulbs enveloped basally by grayish bracts and carrying a single, apical, elliptic-lanceolate, carinate abaxially, acute, conduplicate below into the base leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on 3 to 4, lateral, 1" [2.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with 3, papery, obtuse bracts carrying fragrant flowers
Synonyms Trichopilia picta Lem. 1859
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot., sér. 3., sér. 3 3: 26. 1845; Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1865; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1599 Atwood 1993 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 32 1977 - 2056 Brieger 1996 photo fide; Fieldiana Biology, Flora Costa Ricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae, subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae Atwood & Mora 1999 drawing fide; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 drawing good; Orquideología 23 #1 2004 photo fide; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 photo fide
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