Trichoceros tupaipi Rchb. f. 1877 Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved.
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Common Name
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Peru in high sierra on open rocky and brushy slopes in exopsed and sunny locations at elevations of 2600 to 3500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold to cool growing lithophyte or terrestrial with a woody stem with one to 2, leaf bearing sheaths and carrying ovoid pseudobulbs carrying a single apiocal, erect, narrowly elliptical, acute, conduplicate towards the base leaf that blooms in the summer and fall on an axillary, short successively 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1970; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 0196 Dodson & Bennett 1989 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 30 1841 - 1904 Brieger 1994;
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