Jacquiniella
(pronounced: jak-in-ee-EL-lah)
Classification
Epidendreae subtribe Laeliinae
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Overview
Caespitose to mat-forming epiphytes and lithophytes. Stems erect or pendent, leafy. Leaves alternate, distichous, terete to bilaterally compressed and equitant. Inflorescences terminal, sessile or exserted on a long pedunculate stalk, single-flowered to sequentially flowered from a fasciculate cluster. Flowers inconspicuous, yellow to green, tubular. Sepals and petal free or fused at the base in a small tube. Lip three-lobed, sometimes with the lobes obscure, saccate at the base. Column short, broadly winged at the apex; pollinia 4, sessile on a common viscidium.
Distribution
A genus of 12 species found throughout the neotropics.
Care and Culture Card
See basic growing conditions and care information below.
Grow Jacquiniella mounted on small slabs. Provide intermediate temperatures, bright light, and steady watering throughout the year allowing the roots to dry out between waterings.
Literature
Dressler, R. L. 1970. Una especie nueva de Jacquiniella. Orquideologia 5:23-26. Dressler, R. L., G. A. Salazar and C. J. GarcÃa-Cruz 1992. Jacquiniella gigantea (Orchidaceae: Laeliinae), a new species from Mexico and Guatemala. Orquidea (Mex.) 12:145-150. Senghas, K. 1980. Was ist Dresslerella? -- Neubeschriebung der Gattung Briegeria. Die Orchidee 31:24-30.
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