Trias disciflora

Trias disciflora commonly known as The Disc Flowered Trias - ( refering its disc shaped lip ) is a small sized hot to warm growing epiphyte usually found at elevations below 1500 meters needs high humidity and even watering year round.

The miniature curiosities of the genus Trias will captivate your attention much more with the morphology of their bodies than with their flowers These mainly epiphytic plants form large dense nets of sessile ,ball -shaped ,0.8 in/2 cm across ,vividly green pseudobulbs with a single elliptical succulent leaf. The flowers of Trias disciflora are some of the largest and showiest in the whole genus . They are up to 0.8 in/2 cm in diameter and their light red basic color is densely covered with purple spots . The lip is atypically enlarged and catched the eyes with its darker color and more delicate punctuation .

Trias disciflora blooms early in the spring ; the orcihids original home is Laos and Thailand .

Synonyms

*Bulbophyllum disciflorum Rolfe 1895