!Tetramicra canaliculata [Aubl.] Urban 1918 Photo by Lourens Grobler Copyright © 2006 All rights reserved.

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Oak Hill GardensCopyright © 2002 All rights reserved.

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Common Name Groove Leafed Tetramicra

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

A small sized, warm growing, lithophytic or epiphytic Florida and Caribbean native found in lowland scrub at the base of rosemary bushes or on rocky hillsides among limestone in full sun with sticklike short stems enveloped basally by imbricate, papery sheaths carrying 2 to 5 distichous, fleshy, semi-terete, linear-subulate, acute, channeled leaves and blooms on a 2'4" [70 cm] long, slender, racemose, few [to 8] flowered inflorescence that has several sheaths and ovate, acute bracts and the apically located, flowers opening in succession with up to 4 open at a time, all occuring in late spring and summer with slightly fragrant, showy flowers.

Synonyms Bletia rigida Rchb.f 1861; Brassavola rigida Bold. ?; Cymbidium rigidum Willd. 1805; Epidendrum canaliculatum [Aubl.] Poiret 1810; Helliborne folis rigidis Plumier 1703; *Limodorum canaliculatum Aubl. 1775; Limodorum folis subulatus Wildn. 1758; Tetramicra rigida [Wilde] Lindley 1831;

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