Wullschlaegelia calcarata Bentham 1881 Photo courtesy of Mark Nir and Orchidaceae Antillannae

Common Name The Spurred Wullschlaegelia

Flower Size 1/10th " [2.5 mm]

Found from Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Surinam, Guyana, French Guiana, Northern Brazil, Dominican Republic, Leewards and Windward Island and Trinidad and Tobago as a miniature to small sized, terrestrial herb at elevations of sealevel to 1100 meters and is a small sized, hot growing delicate herb that has tuberous roots with a slender, erect, flexuous, finely pubescent stem blooming in the spring on an erect, terminal, stout, 7" [ 17.5 cm] long, racemose, few to many flowered inflorescence with very small, resupinate flowers.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909; Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 7 2003 photo; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006;

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