Teagueia rex (Luer & R. Escobar) Luer 1991 Photo by © Jay Pfahl

Another Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Lisa Thoerle

Common Name The Kingly Teagueia [Refers to the large size of the flower compared to ather Platystele, where this species originally resided]

Flower Size 1/4" x 1.5" [1 cm x 3.75 cm]

Found in Colombia at elevations around 2200 meters in cloud forests as a miniature to small sized, cool growing epiphyte with an ascending, erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3, imbricating sheaths and carries a single, apical, thinly coriaceous, erect, elliptical, acute, acuminate leaf with the base acuminate into the petiole. This species blooms on an erect, subdense, distichous, 4 2/5" [11 cm] long, simultaneously several flowered, racemose inflorescence arising from near the middle of the ramicaul and having an thin floral bracts. Often found in small caves along cliff banks along streams where the flowers and plants are much bigger than when exposed on a tree in more sun..

Synonyms *Platystele rex Luer & Escobar 1982

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Platystele Vol 7 1990; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Lepanthospsis, Octomeria subgenus Pleurothallopsis, Restrepiella, Salpistele and Teagueia Vol 8 1991; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 as Platystele rex

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