Teuscheria wageneri (Rchb.f.) Garay 1967 Photo courtesy of Lourens Grobler.

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Common Name Wagener's Teuscheria

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Venezuela and Ecuador at elevations of 1500 to 1800 meters as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with ovoid pseudobulbs carrying a thin, single, apical, plicate, heavily veined, petiolate leaf with the petiole completely covered by a chartaceous sheath [this is a major defining point to the genus] that becomes fibrous with age and blooms on a basal, pendulous, single flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb.

Synonyms *Bifrenaria wageneri Rchb.f. 1854; Maxillaria wageneri (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f. 1856; Teuscheria venezuelana Garay 1959; Xylobium corrugatum var. wageneri (Rchb.f.) Schltr. 1912; Xylobium wageneri (Rchb.f.) Schltr. 1919

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004

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