Tetramicra elegans [Hamilton] Cogn. 1910

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Common Name Elegant Tetramicra

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in the Antilles as a miniature to small, hot growing lithophyte and rarely as an epiphyte on rocks in full sun and fairly xerophytic conditions with an elongate rhizome with well spaced tufts of 3 to 4, very terete, slender, acute leaves from which arises an erect, 2' long, thin, terminating in a laxly few to several successively flowered, racemose inflorescence occuring in the late spring and early summer. The flowers of T elegans differ from T canaliculata by having the central yellow line on the lip which t canaliculata does not have. I grow mine in very bright sun [3 to 5 hours of direct sun in summer], and have high on the bench where it gets less water, I fertilize weekly year round. The inflorescence begin to arise in late Febuary to March and flowering begins in Key West in May and continues through late summer.

Synonyms Bletia pratensis Rchb.f 1861; Bletia schomburgkii Rchb.f 1861; Bletia subaequalis [Eggers] Rchb.f 1886; Brassavola elegans [Hamilton] Hkr. 1831; *Cyrtopodium elegans Hamilton 1825; Epidendrum subaequalis Eggers 1879; Oncidium elegans Beer 1854; Tetramicra pratensis [Rchb.f] Rolfe 1889; Tetramicra schomburgkii [Rchb.f] Rolfe 1889; Tetramicra subaequalis [Eggers] Rchb.f 1886

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