Appearance
It is a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte in lowland forests at elevations of sealevel to 1000 meters with clustered, ovoid to ellipsoid, compressed pseudobulbs carrying 2 apical, linear-oblanceolate, acute to obtuse, conduplicate below into the base leaves and blooms on an erect, wiry, 1 1/2' [45 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence that has inflated, tubular bracts, and arising on a mature pseudobulb where it holds the flower at mid-leaf, occurring most in the late winter through summer although they are possible at any time of the year.Naming
SynonymsMaxillaria brachyglossa A. Rich. & Galeotti 1845
Trigonidium brachyglossum (A. Rich. & Galeotti) Schltr. 1918
Trigonidium callistele Rchb.f. 1860
Trigonidium seemannii Rchb.f 1854
Trigonidium spatulatum Linden & Rchb.f. 1854
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