Teagueia jostii Luer 2000 Photo by © Lou Jost

Inflorescence and flower size Photo by © Tobias Policha and The Tobias Travels Blog

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

Common Name Jost's Teagueia [American Orchid Enthusiast in Ecuador current]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Tungurahua province of Ecuador at elevations of 3100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with ascending, stout ramicauls enveloped by 1 to 2, verrucose, imbricating sheaths and carrying a single, apical, suberect, thickly coriaceous, broadly elliptic, obtuse, contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a strict, suberect to horizontal, 6" [15 cm] long including the 2.4" [6 cm] long peduncle, remotely successively several flowered inflorecescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul and has a oblique, acute, verrucose floral bract.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XX Luer 2000 drawing fide; LANKESTERIANA 17(2): Jost & Shepard 2017 photo fide;

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