Trichotosia oreodoxa (Schltr.) P.F.Hunt 1970 Type Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Mountain Loving Trichotosia

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 1200 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with elongate, flexuous, glabrous rhizome giving rise to simple, terete, leafy stems carrying erect-patent, linear, subacute, sparsely rufous-hispid to subglabrous leaves that blooms in the fall on lateral, thin, arcuate, as long as or a bit longer than the leaves, rufous-villous, rachis flexuous, laxly 3 to 7 flowered inflorescence.

Schlecther states that the flowers are red brown with golden brown hairs and the anther is red edged with white.

Synonyms *Eria oreodoxa Schltr. 1912

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 as Eria oreodoxa Drawing fide;

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