Teagueia lehmannii Luer 1991

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

Common Name Lehmann's Teagueia [German Consul and orchid collector 1800's]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Cauca department of Colombia west of Popayan at elevations around 1400 to 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 1 to 2, imbricating sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse, cuneate below into the slender petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect, loose, more or less secund, 12" [30 cm] long including the 4" [10 cm] long peduncle, simultaneously several flowered inflorecescence carrying cleistogamus flowers that never open well, arising laterally from the ramicaul and has a thin floral bract.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum VIII Systematics of Lepanthopsis, Octomeria subgenus Pleurothallopsis, Restrepiella, Salpistele and Teagueia Luer 1991 drawing fide;

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