TRICHOGLOTTIS FASCIATA ( IN 3 INCH POT ABOUT 4 INCH HIGH ) FREE MOUNT

Common name - Striped Petal Trichoglottis - Flower size about 2" Flowers are fragrant and open in succession on long lived floral bracts. Blooms in the spring and summer. An unusual item for the serious orchid collector

SYM. Staurochilus fasciatus

A large sized, scrambling, hot to warm growing epiphyte from the Philippines, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, the Malaysian peninsula and Sumatra in evergreen, semi-deciduous and deciduous dry lowland forests and savana-like woodlands at elevations of sealevel to 800 meters with an elongate stem carrying many oblong-ligulate, unequally rounded apically leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on a horizontal or ascending, 5" [12 cm] long, simple, slightly fractiflex inflorescence with small, triangular-ovate, subacute floral bracts carrying 2 to 8, long-lived, pleasingly fragrant flowers that open in succession.

Synonyms Staurochilus fasciatus Ridley 1896; *Stauropsis fasciata Benth. & Hook. f. 1889; Stauropsis fasciata Ridley ? ; Trichoglottis fasciata (Benth. & Hook. f.) Rchb. f. 1872 ; Vandopsis leytensis Ames 1915

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984 as Trichoglottis fasciata; The Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 as Staurochilus fasciatus; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2002; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo,

~Trichoglottis fasciata (Benth. & Hook. f.) Rchb. f. 1872 - See Staurochilus fasciatus Ridley 1896