Teuscheria pickiana (Schltr.) Garay 1959 Photo courtesy of Oliver Lenhard and his Orchideen Website

Common Name Pick's Teuscheria

Flower Size 1.6" 3.5 cm]

Found in Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Colombia and Ecuador in lowland tropical rainforests at elevations around 450 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with pyriform pseudobulbs carrying 1 to 2, plicate, narrowly elliptic to lanceolate leaves that blooms in the fall on a basal, 1.2" [3 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence

Synonyms *Cryptophoranthus cunabulus Luer & R. Escobar 1981; Phloeophila cunabula (Luer & R. Escobar) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1296 Hamer 1984 drawing fide; Systematics of the Pleurothallidinae Vol 1 1986; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 30 1841 - 1904 Brieger 1994; photo good; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo fide;

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