Teagueia zeus (Luer & Hirtz) ined..

lip detail Photos by © Lourens Grobler

Common Name or Meaning Zeus' Teaugeia [Greek God of Gods - refers to the size]

Flower Size 3" top to bottom [7.5 cm]

Found in Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations around 2400 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect ramicaulsenveloped basally by 2 to 3 thin, ribbed, imbricating sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic-ovate, undulate margins, subacute to obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, cuneate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on an erect to sunerect, distantly, successively few flowered, 3.2 to 5.2" [8 to 13 cm] long, racemose inflorescence arising laterally from the ramicaul with thin floral bracts.

Synonyms *Platystele zeus Luer & Hirtz 1990

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum VII Systematics of Platystele Luer 1990