Tetramicra eulophiae (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f. ex Griseb. 1866 Photo courtesy of Katia Seagull and Her Orchid Web Site

Common Name or Meaning The Eulophia-Like Tetramica

Flower Size 3/4" [2.1 cm]

Found in Cuba at elevations of sealevel to 700 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing terrestro-lithophyte with erect, stems carrying 1 to 2 erect, rigid, terete, linear-subulate to cylindrical, elongate leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on a terrminal, slender, to 34" [85 cm] long, successively several flowered , racemose to few branched, paniculate inflorescence with triangular, acuminate floral bracts.

Synonyms *Bletia eulophiae Rchb.f. 1862

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Catologo Descriptivo de Las Orquideas Cubanas Acuna 1987; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000; The Orchids of Cuba Laramendi and Llamacho 2005