Teagueia lehmannii Luer 1991

TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name Lehmann's Teagueia [German Consul and orchid collector 1800's]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Cauca department of Colombia west of Popayan at elevations around 1400 to 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 1 to 2, imbricating sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse, cuneate below into the slender petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect, loose, more or less secund, 12" [30 cm] long including the 4" [10 cm] long peduncle, simultaneously several flowered inflorecescence carrying cleistogamus flowers that never open well, arising laterally from the ramicaul and has a thin floral bract.

Distinguished by the cleistogamous flowers. A swollen oary is present with every flower that has remained on the libflorescence. The long tails of the three sepals appear to have never parted. The petals are minute and pointed. The lip is ovoid with incurved sides to produce a deep channel or cavity witha verrucose callus within above the base. Externally isa pair of unspread, basal auricles." Luer 1991

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum VIII Systematics of Lepanthospsis, Octomeria subgenus Pleurothallopsis, Restrepiella, Salpistele and Teagueia Luer 1991 drawing fide;

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