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

Common Name The Red Brown Trichotosia [refers to the hairs on the flowers]

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 800 meters as a giant sized, warm growing epiphyte with an elongate, flexuous, glabrous rhizome giving rise to simple, terete, leafy pseudobulbs carrying erect-patent, soft and shortly villious, coriaceous, lanceolate-ligulate, obtusely acuminate apically leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a densely rufous-villous short, 3.2 to 5.2" [8 to 13 cm] long, laxly 4 to 8 flowered inflorescence carrying rusty hairy flowers.

Schlechter states that the flowers are pale yellow with red brown hairs

Synonyms *Eria rufa Schltr. 1912

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

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