Trichoceros
(from thrix, trichos, a hair, and keras, a horn; alluding to the two hairy, antenna-like processes from the column). ORD. Orchideae. A small genus (six or seven species, which may be reduced to three or four) of stove, epiphytal Orchids, natives of Peru and Columbia. Flowers loosely racemose at the apices of the peduncles, mediocre or small, rather long-pedicellate; sepals sub-equal, free, and spreading, larger than the petals; lip sessile at the base of the column, spreading; pollen masses four; bracts shorter than the pedicels. Leaves few, distichous, coriaceous or fleshy. T. parviflorus, the only species yet introduced, thrives in small pans or baskets of peat and sphagnum.
T. parviflorus (small-flowered). fl. green, marked with purple and brown spots and bars, small; lip three-parted, minutely ciliolate; peduncle slender, nearly terete, axillary. Pseudo-bulbs small, bearing a single, fleshy leaf. Columbia, 1870. (R. X. O. i. 9.)