Tetramicra bulbosa Mansf. 1926

Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Common Name The Bulb-Shaped Tetramicra

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Cuba?, Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic at elevations around 50 to 150 meters as a small to medium sized, hot growing lithophyte on limestone karst outcroppings in full sun with significantly thickened almost pseudobulbous stems carrying 2 to 3, apical, erect, fleshy, slightly compressed, acute, linear-ligulate, rough margined leaves that blooms on a terminal, slender, to 14" [35 cm] long, few to several flowered, racemose inflorescence enveloped by a few acute sheaths and has ovate, obtuse floral bracts,

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Ark. Bot. 20A(15): 18 Mansf. 1926

Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 9 513 - 576 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977;

The Cattleyas and Their relatives Vol IV Withner 1996 photo fide;

Orchidaceae Antillinae Nir 2000;

Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001 photo fide;

A Compendium of Miniature Orchid Species Vol 2 Parsons & Gerritson 2013 photo fide;

Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014

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