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 as 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 below and above have distichous, linear-acicular, terete, conduplicate 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 ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1855 as Epidendrum teres; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as Epidendrum teretifolium; Flora of Jamaica Fawcett & Rendle 1910 as Epidendrum teretifolium; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 17: 41. Panama Schlechter 1922 as E teretifolium var powellii; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 45. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as E teres; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 220. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as E teres; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 as Epidendrum teretifolium; AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 5 1961 as Epidendrum teretifolium; AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 9 1961 as Epidendrum teretifolium; AOS Bulletin Vol 38 No 6 1969 as Epidendrum teretifolium; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970 as Epidendrum teretifolium; Flora of the Lesser Antilles Garay & Sweet 1974 drawing fide; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 2 Hamer 1974 as J teres drawing/photo good; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 5 1979; Orchids of Venezuela ; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 as J teres drawing hmm; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 792 Dodson 1982 as Jaquiniella teres drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1538 Atwwod 1984 drawing fide; The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 photo fide; An Orchid Flora Of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Ackerman 1995 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo fide; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing ok; The Orchids of Cuba Llamacho & Larramendi 2005; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005

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