Teagueia tentaculata Luer & Hirtz 1991
Photo by © Jay Pfahl
Photo courtesy of Lisa Thoerle
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Tentacled Teagueia [Refers to the long tails of the sepals]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Ecuador at elevations around 2400 meters in cloud forests as a miniature to small sized, cold growing epiphyte with an ascending, erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3, imbricating sheaths and carries a single, apical, thinly coriaceous, erect, elliptical, acute, acuminate leaf with the base acuminate into the petiole. This species blooms in the winter on an suberect, subdense, distichous, 4.4" [11 cm] long including the 1.2 to 2" [3 to 5 cm] long peduncle, simultaneously several flowered, racemose inflorescence arising from near the middle of the ramicaul and having a thin floral bracts.
"Similar to T rex but T tentacula has pale yellow, instead of bright rose flowers, considerably longer, sepaline tails and an ovoid lip lacking the prominent basal callus." 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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