Teagueia phasmida ( Luer & R.Escobar ) Luer 2007
Photo by © Jay Pfahl
TYPE Drawing of Platystele phasmida
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Stick Bug-Like Teagueia
Flower Size .2" x 1.2" [5 mm x 3 cm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia at elevations around 2400 to 2600 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3, thin, ribbed, imbricating sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic, obtuse to rounded apically, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, cuneate, petiolate, base leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, 6" [15 cm] long including the 3.2" [8 cm] long peduncle, loosely several, successively flowered, racemose inflorescence arising laterally from the ramicaul with 2 to 4 flowers open at any one time and has thin floral bracts.
"Distinguished by the extremely narrow, pubescent sepals and the pubescent lip." Luer 1990
Synonyms *Platystele phasmida Luer & R.Escobar 1986
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Orquideologia Vol 16 #3 1986 as Platystele phasmida drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VII Systematics of Platystele Luer 1990 as Platystele phasmida drawing fide;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 as Platystele phasmida photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #10 2019 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 89 #11 2020 photo fide;
Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide
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