Anacheilium silvanum Campacci 2004
Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista
TYPE Drawing by © V P Castro
Common Name or Meaning Da Silva's Anacheilium [Brazilian Orchid Enthusiast current]
Flower Size 1.4" [3.5 cm]
Found in Bahia state of Brazil in Atlantic rainforests at elevations of 400 to 800 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with fusiform, funnel-shaped basally, laterally compressed, segmented apex pseudobulb carrying 2 to 3, apical, subcoriaceous, oblanceolate, cymbidiform, acute leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, arising through a spathe, erect, 4.4" [11 cm] long, few flowered inflorescence and carrying non-resupinate flowers.
Synonyms *Prosthechea silvana Cath. & V.P.Castro 2003
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Richardiana 3: 181 Cath. & V.P.Castro 2003
Boletim CAOB #54:55 Campacci 2004 nom nudum as Anacheilium silvanum
Icones Orchidacearum Brasilenses Vol II Plate 188 Castro Neto 2006 as Prosthechea silvana drawing fide/photo fide
Colet. Orquídeas Brasil. 18: 750 Rosim 2022 as Anacheilium silvanum
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