Anacheilium confusum ( Rolfe ) Withner & P.A.Harding 2004

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Common Name The Confused Anacheilium

Flower Size 4" [10 cm]

Found in Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador as a medium to large sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with tall, cylindric pseudobulbs carrying 2 apical, strap shaped leaves and blooms in the late spring on a short to 2.8" [7 cm]long, terminal inflorescence with simultaneously opening flowers arising on a mature pseudobulb.

Said by many to be synomonous with A baculus but differs in the larger lip with a less pointed apex, broader, longer column and the straw colored flexed tepals vs white.

Synonyms *Epidendrum confusum Rolfe 1899; Epidendrum fragrans var. megalanthum Lindl. 1829

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

J. Hort. Soc. London 4: 223 Lindley 1849 as Epidendrum fragrans var megalantha

Orchid Rev. 7: 197 Rolfe 1899 as Epidendrum confusum;

Las Orquedias de El Salvador Hamer 1974 as Epidendrum confusum

The Genus Encyclia in Mexico Dressler & Pollard 1976 as Epidendrum confusum;

*The Cattleyas and Their Relatives, the Debateable Epidendrum Withner and Harding 2004 drawing fide;

Selbyana 29: 214 W E Higgins 2009 as Prosthechea confusa;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:415 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 as Synonym of A baculus; ;

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