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Orchid Species: Tetramicra montana

Kew currently accepted name is Dilomilis montana

Tetramicra montana is an orchid species identified by (Sw.) Griseb. in 1864. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Dilomilis montana.
Genus
Tetramicra (Ttma.)
Grex
montana
Parents
Species
Author
(Sw.) Griseb.
Year
1864
ORIGIN: Found from Cuba, Dominican Republic, Jamaica and Puerto Rico in wet cloud forests along ridges and roadsides at elevations of 700 to 2000 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Large to giant sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte or terrestrial with an erect, terete, cane-like, sometimes branched stem enveloped by persistent leaf bearing sheaths and carrying numerous, coriaceous, rigid, entire, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate-elliptic, gradually becoming conduplicate into the clasping base leaves that blooms in the winter through early spring on a terminal, erect, sometimes branched, 12 [30 cm] long, 3 to 17 flowered inflorescence with stiff, erect floral bracts and carrying flowers that smell of violets.

FLOWER SIZE: 0.6 inches [1.5 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Dilomilis Dilo montana 1961 (Sw.) Summerh.
Add+ Dilomilis Dilo serrata 1838 Raf.
Add+ Epidendrum Epi montanum 1788 Sw.
Add+ Octadesmia Octadesmia serratifolia 1881 (Hook.) Benth.
Add+ Octomeria Oma serratifolia 1828 Hook.
Add+ Octadesmia Octadesmia montana 1883 (Sw.) Benth. in G.Bentham & J.D.Hooker
Add+ Bletia Bletia montana 1862 (Sw.) Rchb.f. in W.G.Walpers
Add+ Cymbidium Cym montanum 1799 (Sw.) Sw.
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