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Trisetella is a small genus of tiny orchids that used to be classified as Masdevallias, and the resemblance is obvious. Trisetella dressler...
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This species, synonymous with Lepanthes mastodon, is from the cloud forests of Ecuador and Colombia, and is in many ways a very unusual species. It is pendant and has two different kinds of leaves. The larger, flowering leaves are on stems 10 cm or more in length, the leaves themselves a bit longer than 5 cm. These leaves are covered with coarse hairs on the upper surface and bear a succession of unusually shaped and colored flowers on ever lengthening thread-like inflorescences. The other leaves are smaller, only about 3 cm, and are borne on stems only 3-4 cm long. These leaves do not have the coarse hairs of the blooming leaves. Each new growth has the typical sheathes of the genus Lepanthes. All the leaves are a dark reddish-green and are very attractive in their own right, but the flowers are the real attraction. They are a little over 1.5 cm tall and are an attractive reddish mahogany color with touches of yellow, red and green. The flowers not only bloom successively on their spikes, but each leaf will continue to produce new spikes so that each may have several flowers open and so that the plant is never out of flower. The name manabina refers to a western Ecuadorian state where this plant is found.
Trisetella is a small genus of tiny orchids that used to be classified as Masdevallias, and the resemblance is obvious. Trisetella dressleri is from Panama and is named after an American botanist, Robert Dressler. The plant is only 3 cm tall and the flowers about 1 cm in size. The plant will do well either in a small pot or mounted, but needs cool temperatures since it is from the high cloud forests.
Trisetella triglochin, also found under the name Trisetella huebneri, is found both in southern Central America and northern South America. It is extremely variable in flower shape and color. This plant is only 3 cm tall with flowers that are also 3 cm in size and are produced on very thin 5 cm spikes that produce several flowers in succession. I am not certain, however, that is correctly identified, since most of the Trisetellas I've purchased have had the wrong name.
I am not sure of the identification of this species It was supposed to be Trisetella sororia, which it most definitely is not. It may be Trisetella klingeri, from Ecuador, but it may also be just a form of the variable and widespread Trisetella triglochin. The plant is tiny, like most Trisetellas, only about 3-4 cm tall, and the flowers, born on 6 cm spikes are about 1 cm in size. By any name, however, it is a cute miniature, and worthy of a place in any collection of miniature orchids.
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