Capanemia thereziae Barb. Rodr. 1877

Plant and Flower Photo by Americo Docha Neto courtesy of Dalton Holland Baptista

Common Name Therese's Capanemia [Bavarian Princess 1800's]

Flower Size .2" [.6 cm]

Found in Pernambuco, Rio de Janiero, Sao Paulo, Parana', Minas Gerais, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul states of Brazil as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with ovate, somewhat laterally compressed pseudobulbs partially enveloped basally by a pair of thin, dry leafless sheaths and carrying a single, narrowly lanceolate, thick, rigid, erect to spreading, broad in the middle, recurved and tapering apically conduplicate below into a short, petiole-like base that blooms in the summer on an axillary, 2.2" [5.2cm] long,, 2 to 3 flowered, terete, bent to flexuous inflorescence.

Synonyms Capanemia duseniana (Kraenzl.) Porto & Brade 1935; Capanemia hatschbacbii Schltr. 1926; Quekettia duseniana Kraenzl. 1921; Quekettia longirostellata Samp. 1916; Quekettia theresiae (Barb. Rodr.) Cogn. 1904

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Gen. Sp. Orchid., 2: 244. 1877; Fl. Bras. 3(6): 200. 1904 as Quekettia thereziae; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006 as Capanemia thereziae Barb. Rodr. 1877;

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