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Trichosma simondii is an orchid species identified by Gagnep. in 1950. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Eria gagnepainii.
ORIGIN: Found in the Yunnan China and Vietnam in forests on trees or rocks at elevations of 1500 to 2100 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte or lithophyte with a creeping rhizome enveloped by funnel shaped sheaths and giving rise to either close set or to 1.2 [3 cm] between each, cylindric, slender, elongate pseudobulbs with a long, fibrous, lacerate sheath and carrying 2, subterminal, sessile, narrowly elliptic, elliptic-lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate to obovate-elliptic, 5 to 9 main veined, acuminate leaves that blooms in the later winter through mid spring on 1 to 2, axillary, 2.4 to 16 [6 to 40 cm] long, to 12 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate to linear, acuminate floral bracts and carrying at first pure white becoming cream and then yellow with age, scented or not flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 to 1.2 inches [2.5 to 3 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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