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Tetramicra serrulata is an orchid species identified by (Lindl.) G.Nicholson in 1887. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Leptotes bicolor.
ORIGIN: From Brazil and Paraguay in subtropical rainforest and coastal mountains at elevations of 500 to 900 meters.
DESCRIPTION: A beautiful, miniature, warm growing epiphyte with terete pencil-like pseudobulbs covered basally by several membraneous sheaths and has a single, apical, erect or spreading, subcylindric, acute, deeply grooved dorsally, shiny, dark green leaf, and large, 1 to 3, successively opening, fragrant flowers on a 3/4 [2 cm] long, inflorescence shorter than and arising from the base of the leaves, occurring in the late winter or early spring.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 1/2 to 2 inches [3.5 to 5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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