Trisetella hirtzii Luer 1986 SECTION Trisetella SUBSECTION Calvicaulis Luer 1989
Photo by Jay Pfahl
Photo by © Arturo Carrillo
Photo courtesy of Dale and Deni Borders
Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
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Common Name Hirtz' Trisetella [Discoverer of species- Ecuadorian Orchid Enthusiast 20th century]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in the eastern slope of the Andes in southern Ecuador at altitudes of 950 to 1500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte of wet humid forests with erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly obovate, obtuse, gradually narrowing below leaf that blooms in the summer on an erect, arising from low on the ramicaul, very slender, smooth, with a bract near the base, .8 to 1" [20 to 25 mm] long, congested, successively single, few flowered inflorescence.
"Identified by the relatively broad, obovate leaves, a shortly fringed ovary, bright rose sepals with an orange tail of the dorsal sepal and white tails of the lateral sepals and a pair of small, uncinate processes on the calli of the lip." Luer 1989
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VI Systematics of Pleurothallis subgen Ancipita, Scopula and Trisetella Luer 1989 drawing fide;
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