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Orchid Species: Tetramicra elegans

Kew currently accepted name is Tetramicra canaliculata

Tetramicra elegans is an orchid species identified by (Ham.) Cogn. in I.Urban in 1910. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Tetramicra canaliculata.
Genus
Tetramicra (Ttma.)
Grex
elegans
Parents
Species
Author
(Ham.) Cogn. in I.Urban
Year
1910
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ORIGIN: Found in the Puerto Rico, the Leewards, the Windwards and Trinidad.

DESCRIPTION: Miniature to small sized, hot growing lithophyte and rarely as an epiphyte on rocks in full sun and fairly xerophytic conditions with an elongate rhizome with well spaced tufts of 3 to 4, very terete, slender, acute leaves from which arises an erect, 2' [60 cm] long, thin, terminating in a laxly few to several successively flowered, racemose inflorescence occurring in the late spring and early summer.

FLOWER SIZE: 1 inch [2.5 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Tetramicra Ttma canaliculata 1918 (Aubl.) Urb.
Add+ Epidendrum Epi canaliculatum 1810 (Aubl.) Poir. in J.B.A.M.de Lamarck
Add+ Epidendrum Epi subaequale 1879 Eggers
Add+ Tetramicra Ttma rigida 1831 (Willd.) Lindl.
Add+ Brassavola B elegans 1831 (Ham.) Hook.
Add+ Bletia Bletia rigida 1862 (Willd.) Rchb.f. in W.G.Walpers
Add+ Bletia Bletia schomburgkii 1862 Rchb.f. in W.G.Walpers
Add+ Bletia Bletia subaequalis 1886 (Eggers) Rchb.f.
Add+ Cyrtopodium Cyrt elegans 1825 Ham.
Add+ Oncidium Onc elegans 1854 (Ham.) Beer
Add+ Tetramicra Ttma schomburgkii 1889 (Rchb.f.) Rolfe
Add+ Brassavola B rigida 1909 (Willd.) Bold.
Add+ Cymbidium Cym rigidum 1806 Z.J.Liu & S.C.Chen
Add+ Limodorum Limo canaliculatum 1775 Aubl.
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