Teuscheria desireeae Archila, Chiron & Szlach. 2013Photo by © Moises Behar
TYPE DrawingDrawing by © Fredy Archila
Common Name Desiree's Teuscheria [Venezuelan orchid enthusiast Desiree de Simini Reinberg, current]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Supposedly found in Venezuela without locality as a just medium sized epiphyte with distant, dark green, orbicular pseudobulbs enveloped basally by papyraceous, brown bracts and carrying 1 to 2, plicate, thin, elongate leaves that blooms in the fall on a basal, peduncle 4" [10 cm] long, provided with a single dark purple bract, that blooms in the fall on a 4" [10 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence.
Similar to T pickiana but differs in the lip apex that terminates in a truncate apex with an erose margin and the lateral lobes triangular with a an abaxial sparse pubescence.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Richardiana 13 260 Chiron & Szlatchetko 2013 Drawing fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018
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