Teagueia is a genus of orchids.[1] They are found at high altitudes in the Andes in Colombia, Peru and Ecuador.[2][3]

Teagueia
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Tribe: Epidendreae
Subtribe: Pleurothallidinae
Genus: Teagueia
(Luer) Luer

Species accepted as of June 2014:[2]

  1. Teagueia alyssana Luer & L.Jost - Ecuador
  2. Teagueia barbeliana L.Jost & Shepard - Ecuador
  3. Teagueia cymbisepala Luer & L.Jost - Ecuador
  4. Teagueia jostii Luer - Ecuador
  5. Teagueia lehmannii Luer - Colombia
  6. Teagueia moisesii Chocce & M.E.Acuña - Peru
  7. Teagueia phasmida (Luer & R.Escobar) O.Gruss & M.Wolff - Colombia
  8. Teagueia portillae Luer - Ecuador
  9. Teagueia puroana L.Jost & Shepard - Ecuador
  10. Teagueia rex (Luer & R.Escobar) O.Gruss & M.Wolff - Colombia
  11. Teagueia sancheziae Luer & L.Jost - Ecuador
  12. Teagueia teaguei (Luer) Luer - Ecuador
  13. Teagueia tentaculata Luer & Hirtz - Ecuador
  14. Teagueia zeus (Luer & Hirtz) O.Gruss & M.Wolff - Ecuador

References

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  1. ^ Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.C. & Rasmussen, F.N. (2006). Epidendroideae (Part One). Genera Orchidacearum 4: 1-672. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.
  2. ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. ^ Luer, C. A. 1991. Icones Pleurothallidinarum–VIII. Systematics of Lepanthopsis, Octomeria subgenus Pleurothallopsis, Restrepiella, Restrepiopsis, Salpistele, and Teagueia. Addenda to Platystele, Porroglossum, and Scaphosepalum. Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 39: 1–161.