Anguloa brevilabris Rolfe 1915
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Common Name The Short-Lipped Anguloa - In Colombia Cuna de Venus
Flower Size 2.5" [6.25 cm]
Found in Colombia and Peru? in light woodlands at elevations of 1400 to 2300 meters as a large sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with large, dark green pseudobulbs occasionally spined after leaf-fall and carrying 4, oblanceolate, plicate leaves that blooms in the summer on 4 to 6" [10 to 15 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with 4 to 6, inflated, sheathing bracts and carrying very fragrant flowers
Synonyms Anguloa goldschmidtiana Schltr. 1916; Anguloa × ruckeri var. retusa Rchb.f. 1883; Anguloa sagittata Summerh. 1931
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encylopedia of Cultivated Orchids 1965; Orchid Digest Vol 42 No 4 1978 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen lieferung 29 1777 - 1840 Brieger 1994 as A goldschmidtiana drawing ok; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen lieferung 29 1777 - 1840 Brieger 1994 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 photo good; Orchid Digest Vol 63 #4 1999; Orquideologia Vol 21 #2 1999 photo fide; Australian Orchid Review Vol 65 No 4 2000 photo; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 44-45 pg 2763 - 2898 Brieger 2001; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 10 2008 photo fide; Lycaste, Ida and Anguloa, The Essential Guide Oakley 2008 photos fide; Orquideología Vol 26 #2 2009 photo fide;Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 28 #2 2011 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #5 2017 photo fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo fide
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