Triphora debilis (Schltr.) Schltr. 1921

Photo by © Robin Foster and The Neotropical Live Plant Photos Website

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Common Name or Meaning The Weak Triphora

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in southern Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica and Panama in wet and very wet forests at elevations of 400 to 1800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to cool growing Mycoheterotrophic terrestrial with erect stems carrying a few, triangular-cordate, acute, shortly cuneate base leaves, that blooms in the late spring and summer on an axillary, terminal, 1 to few flowered inflorescence carrying white flowers with purple rays

Synonyms *Pogonia debilis Schltr. 1918

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; The Orchids of Mexico Hagsater, Soto etal 2005 photo fide; LANKESTERIANA 14(2): 115—121. Vega, Cetzal, Mo, Germer and Soler 2014 photo fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018

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