Teuscheria pickiana (Schltr.) Garay 1959 Photo courtesy of Oliver Lenhard and his Orchideen Website

Common Name Pick's Teuscheria

Flower Size 3/4" [1.85 cm]

Found in Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Colombia and Ecuador in lowland forests at elevations of 100 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with scattered, adpressed to the rhizome, ovoid pseudobulbs enveloped completely by thick papery, persistent sheaths and carrying apically, a single, slender, acute, plicate, gradually narrowing below in to the conduplicate, elongate, petiolate base leaf that blooms on 2 basal, to 2" [5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence enveloped completely by imbricate, acute bracts

Synonyms *Bifrenaria pickiana Schltr. 1912; Xylobium pickianum (Schltr.) L.O.Williams 1955

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006;