Triphora surinamensis (Lindl. ex Benth.) Britton 1924 Photos by Carol Garvey courtesy of Stewart Chipka

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Common Name The Tiny Flower Bud Pleurothallis

Flower Size 1/4" [.65 cm]

Found in Cuba, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico, Tortola, Windward Islands, Trinidad, French Guiana, Guyana, Surinam, Venezuela and Colombia at elevations of 600 to 1500 meters as a miniature to medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with an erect, robust stem carrying a few well spaced, plicate, membraneous, sessile to shortly petiolate, ovate-lanceolate, acute to acuminate leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on an erect, single [to 3 possible] flowered inflorescence and has leaf-like floral bracts. The photo shows the plant with seed pods.

Synonyms *Pogonia surinamensis Lindl. ex Benth. 1843

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as Pogonia surinamensis; Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000, Orchids of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Ackerman 1995; The Orchids of Cuba Llamach & Larrimendi 2005

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