Teagueia teaguei (Luer) Luer 1991
Photo by © Andreas Kay and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Plant and Flowers in situ Ecuador
Photos by © Alexander Hirtz
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Teague's Teagueia [American Orchid Enthusiast and discoverer of species current]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Imbabura province of Ecuador at elevations around 3000 to 3400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, thin, ribbed, imbricate sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical-obovate, obtuse to rounded, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a erect, loose, subsecund, to 3.2" [to 8 cm] long including the 1.6" [4 cm] long peduncle, successively 2 to 4, several flowered inflorescence arising laterally from the ramiucal with thin, as long to just shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
"The white, red-striped, long-tailed sepals and petals are distinctive. "luer 1990
Synonyms *Platystele teaguei Luer 1979
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VII Systematics of Platystele Luer 1990 as Platystele teaguei drawing fide;
Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001 drawing fide;
Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo fide
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