Trichocentrum obcordilabium Pupulin 1998 SECTION Trichocentrum

TYPE photo Photos by © Pupulin The Ecuagenera Website

Drawing Photo by © Franco Pupulin and The Epidendra Website

Common Name The Reverse Heart Shaped Lip Trichocentrum

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Morona-Santiago Ecuador in submontane rainforests at elevations around 1600 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with nearly obsolescent pseudobulbs enveloped by 2 to 3 papyraeous sheaths and carrying a single, fleshy, green, ellliptic to elliptic-oblong, sessile, retuse leaf that blooms in the winter on a terete, 1" [2.5 cm] long, 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence with ovate, acute floral bracts and campanulate flowers

This species is part of the T pulchrum group which includes T longicalcaratum, T pulchrum, T viridulum and T loyalicum but differs in the 4 keels of the obcordate lip.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Novon 8(3): 283, f. 1. 1998 Pupulin drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 69 #3 2000 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 44-45 pg 2763 - 2898 Brieger 2001; Harvard Papers in Botany Vol 21 #2 Cetzal-Ix Carnevalli and Romero-Gonzalez 2016 Synopsis of the Trichocentrum Clade;

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