Jacquiniella teretifolia (Sw.) Britton & P. Wilson 1926 Photo courtesy of Noble Bashor

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Common Name The Terete-Leafed Jacquiniella

Flower Size 1/2" [about 1.25 cm]

Found in Cuba, Dominican republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leewards, Puerto Rico, Windwards, Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana and Brazil at elevations of 900 to 1700 meters

A hot to warm growing, miniature to small sized epiphyte found in dryer cloud forests at elevations of 900 to 1700 meters with erect stems that are enveloped by scarious, tubular sheaths belwo and above have distichous, linear-acicular, terete, conuplicate below into the clasping base leaves that blooms in the summer to winter on a terminal, sessile, one to 2 flowered inflorescence having one or 2 large bracts at the base, and with the flowers held at the apex of the stem.

Synonyms Briegeria teretifolia [Sw.] Senhas 1980; Cymbidium teretifolium [Sw.] Sw. 1806; Epidendrum subuliferum Schltr. 1918; Epidendrum teres Rchb. f. 1855; *Epidendrum teretifolium Sw. 1788; Isochilis teretifolius {Sw.] Lindl. 1831; Jacquiniella teres (Rchb. f.) Hamer & Garay 1974

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 as Epidendrum teretifolium; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970 as Epidendrum teretifolium; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 792 Dodson 1982 as Jaquiniella teres; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1538 Atwwod 1984; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000; The Orchids of Cuba Llamacho & Larramendi 2005; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005