Trichopilia juninensis

Trichopilia juninensis C.Schweinf., Amer. Orchid Soc. Bull. 13: 424, tab (1945).

Trichopilia juninensis C.Schweinf., Photo by Tennis Maynard

its native range is Colombia, Peru (Junín).

Latinh Name: 

Trichopilia juninensis C.Schweinf.

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

No synonyms are recorded for this name.

English Name:

The Juinin Trichopilia (Peruvian town).

Description: 

With an oblong, complanate pseudobulb enveloped basally by several, scarious sheaths and carrying a single apical, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, acute, basally conduplicate and sessile into the base leaf and blooms on a basal, 2.4 cm 1 to 3 flowered, racemose inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb and held below the leaf .

Distribution:

Colombia, Peru.

Ecological:

Warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte in wet montane forests at altitudes of 1000 to 1700 m.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the winter and summer.

Flower size:

4.0 cm.

Cultivation:

Grow plants in cool to warm temperatures in partial shade. Water plant when mix dries. During the winter give plants a slight dryout between waterings. Water approximately once a week. Reduce watering during the winter season. Pot with medium fir bark..

Type:

Type Information:

Distribution Of Types: Junín (Peru, Western South America, Southern America).