Teagueia portillae Luer 2002 Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

Part Shade Cool Spring

Common Name Portilla's Teagueia [Ecuadorian Nurseryman Current]

Flower Size .2" [6 mm]

Found in Ecuador at elevations around 2500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 1 to 2 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse, acuminate basally intothe petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, 3" [7.5 cm] long, loosely few, successively 2 to 3 flowered, racemose inflorescence arising from near the middle of the ramicaul and has thin floral bracts

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinnarum Vol XXIV Luer 2002 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 photo ok

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