Pleurothallis teaguei

 Pleurothallis teaguei Luer, Lindleyana 11: 187, fig (1996).

Pleurothallis teaguei Luer, Photo by Kevin Holcomb

its native range is Ecuador (Esmeraldas).

Latinh Name: 

Pleurothallis teaguei Luer

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Acronia teaguei (Luer) Luer

Zosterophyllanthos teaguei (Luer) Szlach. & Kulak

English Name:

Teague's Pleurothallis (American Botanist).

Description: 

With erect, stout ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3, close tubular sheaths and another on the middle third and carrying a single, apical, horizontal to spreading, coriaceous, cordate-ovate, acute, basally sessile and deeply cordate leaf that blooms in the summer on a fascile of successive single flowered inflorescence arising through a reclining spathe and holding the flower close against the leaf base. 

Distribution:

Ecuador.

Ecological:

At elevations of 750 to 1550 m as a large sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the summer.

Flower size:

1.3 cm.

Cultivation:

Keep plant in partial shade. Plant can be grown in intermediate to warm conditions. Pot the plant in fine bark with perlite or sphagnum moss. Water regularly and keep potting media moist.

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