Tolumnia tuerckheimii (Cogn.) Braem 1986 Photo courtesy of Pennisular hybrids and their Pennisular Hybrid Website

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Common Name Tuerckheim's Tolumnia [German Orchid Collector in Antilles and Central America 1800 to early 1900's]

Flower Size 1" [2 to 2.5 cm]

Found in Haiti, Dominican Republic and Cuba hanging on the bottom of branches as a small to medium sized, cool to cold, pendant growing epiphyte with a downward facing fan of to 9, longer to 2' [60 cm], imbricate, conduplicate, fleshy, linear-ensiform, subfalcate, dorsally carinate, acute, entire margined leaves that blooms on a lateral, erect, racemose, distally laxly 3 to 9 flowered, pendant inflorescence witha few short, acute bracts at the nodes and whitish, scarious, triangular floral bracts.

Synonyms Gudrunia tuerckheimii (Cogn.) Braem 1993; *Oncidium tuerckheimii Cogn. 1912; Tolumnia acunae (M.A.Díaz) Nir 2000; Tolumnia tuerckheimii subsp. acunae M.A.Díaz 1987

References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Digest Vol 44 No 3 1980 photo fide; Orchidaceae Antillinae Nir 2000 as T acunae;

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