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Orchid Species: Prosthechea trulla

(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)

Prosthechea trulla is an orchid species identified by (Rchb.f.) W.E.Higgins in 1998.
Genus
Prosthechea (Psh.)
Grex
trulla
(name currently accepted by Kew)
Parents
Species
Author
(Rchb.f.) W.E.Higgins
Year
1998
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ORIGIN: Found in Mexico in oak or pine-oak forests occasionally on rocks at elevations of 300 to 1500 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte and occasional lithophyte with loosely clustered, pyriform to ellipsoid, laterally compressed pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, acute, narrowly elliptic leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on a racemose, 4 to 10 flowered inflorescence.

FLOWER SIZE: 1.2 inches [3 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Anacheilium Ahl lancifolium
Add+ Epidendrum Epi langlassei 1918 Schltr.
Add+ Prosthechea Psh lancifolia
Add+ Encyclia E trulla 1996 (Rchb.f.) Christenson
Add+ Epidendrum Epi trulla 1856 Rchb.f.
Add+ Anacheilium Ahl trulla 2004 (Rchb.f.) Withner & P.A.Harding
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Psh. trulla 'Elen' (2014) Psh. trulla 'Fredensborg' (2010)
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