Teagueia rex (Luer & R. Escobar) Luer 2007 Photo by © Jay Pfahl

Another Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Lisa Thoerle

Common Name The Kingly Teagueia [Refers to the large size of the flower compared to ather Platystele, where this species originally resided]

Flower Size 1/4" x 1.5" [1 cm x 3.75 cm]

Found in Colombia at elevations around 2200 meters in cloud forests as a miniature to small sized, cold growing epiphyte with an ascending, erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3, imbricating sheaths and carries a single, apical, thinly coriaceous, erect, elliptical, acute, acuminate leaf with the base acuminate into the petiole. This species blooms in the spring and summer on an erect, subdense, distichous, 4 2/5" [11 cm] long, simultaneously several flowered, racemose inflorescence arising from near the middle of the ramicaul and having an thin floral bracts. Often found in small caves along cliff banks along streams where the flowers and plants are much bigger than when exposed on a tree in more sun..

Synonyms *Platystele rex Luer & Escobar 1982

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Platystele Vol 7 1990 drawing fide as Platystele rex; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Lepanthospsis, Octomeria subgenus Pleurothallopsis, Restrepiella, Salpistele and Teagueia Vol 8 1991; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 as Platystele rex photo fide; Natve Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 photo fide; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIX Luer 2007

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