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Orchid Species: Tetragamestus gracilis

Kew currently accepted name is Scaphyglottis prolifera

Tetragamestus gracilis is an orchid species identified by Schltr. in 1918. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Scaphyglottis prolifera.
Genus
Tetragamestus (Tet.)
Grex
gracilis
Parents
Species
Author
Schltr.
Year
1918
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ORIGIN: Found from Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Fr. Guiana, Guyana, Surinam, Venezuela, Trinidad and the Windward Islands as a medium sized, hot to warm growing, caespitose epiphyte in hot low rainforests at elevations of 40 to 2000 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Found from Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Fr. Guiana, Guyana, Surinam, Venezuela, Trinidad and the Windward Islands as a medium sized, hot to warm growing, caespitose epiphyte in hot low rainforests at elevations of 40 to 2000 meters with segmented, cylindric pseudobulbs with segments that become smaller apically and can sometimes branch to two, subtended by basal sheaths with two apical, subcoriaceous, lanceolate leaves that are conduplicate at the base blooming on a terminal, fasciculate, short, 1 or 2 flowered inflorescence that holds the successive flower against the leaf base and occurs in the fall and early winter.

FLOWER SIZE: 3/16 to 1/2 inch [1 to 1.2 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Scaphyglottis Scgl prolifera 1898 (R.Br.) Cogn. in C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.)
Add+ Isochilus Iso proliferus 1813 R.Br. in W.T.Aiton
Add+ Ponera Pon mapiriensis 1928 Kraenzl.
Add+ Scaphyglottis Scgl cuneata 1918 Schltr.
Add+ Scaphyglottis Scgl gracilis 1923 (Schltr.) Schltr.
Add+ Scaphyglottis Scgl wercklei 1923 Schltr.
Add+ Isochilus Iso prolifer 1813 R.Br. in W.T.Aiton
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Scgl. prolifera 'Jimenita' (2016) Scgl. prolifera 'Efrain Villalobos' (2014) Scgl. prolifera 'Alicia' (2013) Scgl. prolifera 'Pedro' (2012) Scgl. prolifera 'LeBuff' (2000) Scgl. cuneata 'Old Mill' (1994) Scgl. prolifera 'Diane' (1980)
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