Teagueia jostii Luer 2000
Photo by © Lou Jost
Photo by © Tobias Policha and The Tobias Travels Blog
Drawing by Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name Jost's Teagueia [American Orchid Enthusiast in Ecuador current]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Tungurahua province of Ecuador at elevations of 3100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing, long-repent epiphyte with ascending, stout ramicauls enveloped by 1 to 2, verrucose, imbricating sheaths and carrying a single, apical, suberect, thickly coriaceous, broadly elliptic, obtuse, contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a strict, arising from near the apex of the ramicaul, suberect to horizontal, 6" [15 cm] long including the 2.4" [6 cm] long peduncle, remotely successively several flowered inflorecescence with an oblique, acute, verrucose, more or less half as long as the pedicel floral bract.
"Disitnguished by the long-repent rhizome with verrucose sheaths shprt, asceding ramicauls, broadly elliptical, long-petiolate, thickly coriaceous leaves and a remotely flowered raceme of small flowers that face downwards. The sepals and petals are yellow striped with red, the sepals are ovate, acute and acuminate, the lateral sepals are oblique and semi-connate and the lip is comparitively large, suborbicular and shallowly concave with a sharply defined cavity near the middle." Luer 2000
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XX Systematics of Jostia, Andinia, Barbosella, Barbrodia & Pleurothallis subgen Antilla, Effusia and Restrepioidia Luer 2000 drawing fide; LANKESTERIANA 17(2): Jost & Shepard 2017 photo fide;
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