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Orchid Species: Trichoceros muscifera

Kew currently accepted name is Trichoceros antennifer

Trichoceros muscifera is an orchid species identified by Kraenzl. in 1906. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Trichoceros antennifer.
Genus
Trichoceros (Tc.)
Grex
muscifera
Parents
Species
Author
Kraenzl.
Year
1906
ORIGIN: Found from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia as a small sized, wandering, cool to cold growing terrestrial or lithophytic orchid found on dry, exposed, steep mossy slopes amidst shrubs in cloud forests at altitudes of 1800-4100 meters.

DESCRIPTION: A small sized, wandering, cool to cold growing terrestrial or lithophytic orchid found on dry, exposed, steep mossy slopes amidst shrubs in cloud forests at altitudes of 1800-4100 meters with a creeping, distant, ovoid, small pseudobulb, almost obscured in the center with several, basal pairs of distichous, imbricating, ovate-lanceolate to ovate-elliptic, long acute, coriaceous, gray green, foliaceous sheaths, and carrying a single, apical small, rudimentary leaf and blooms on an axillary, lateral, to 10 [25 cm]long, much longer than the leaf, inflorescence held well above the leaves with ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate bracts and flowers that open in succession occurring in the late fall through spring.

FLOWER SIZE: Under 1 inches [under 2.4 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Trichoceros Tc antennifer 1816 (Bonpl.) Kunth in F.W.H.von Humboldt
Add+ Trichoceros Tc antennifera
Add+ Trichoceros Tc armillatus 1856 Rchb.f.
Add+ Trichoceros Tc parviflora
Add+ Trichoceros Tc parviflorus 1816 Kunth in F.W.H.von Humboldt
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Tc. antennifer 'Albert' (4 awards from 2013 to 2018) Tc. antennifera 'Cass Lake' (2 awards from 1973 to 1974) Tc. antennifer 'Zayah' (2018) Tc. antennifer 'Iquitos' (2015) Tc. parviflora 'Etchemin' (1997) Tc. parviflora 'Sellon' (1996) Tc. antennifera 'Summit' (1965)
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