Rhyncholaelia digbyana [Lindley]Schlechter 1918
Photo by Jay Pfahl
Photo by Allen Black
Photo by Weyman Bussey
TYPE Drawing of R digbyana var fimbripetala
TYPE Drawing by Ames
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Common Name Digby's Beaked Laelia [English Orchid Enthusiast 1800's]
Flower Size to 6.8" [17 cm]
Found in Yucatan, Campeche and Quintana Roo states of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and Costa Rica at elevations of 10 to 1000 meters as a medium to large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with the entire plant glaucous, a creeping rhizome giving rise to 6" [15 cm], elongate, compressed, closely spaced psuedobulbs carrying a single, apical, elliptic, erect, stiff, fleshy, 8" [20 cm] leaf, that blooms in the summer on a terminal, erect, 3" [7.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence subtended by a large sheath, and carrying a large, lemon to lily of the Valley scented flower.
This species does best mounted on wood or tree fern, given plenty of bright light and ample water while growing and a lessening after the bulbs have matured.
Synonyms Bletia digbiyana [Lindley]Rchb.f 1861; *Brassavola digbyana Lindley 1846; Brassavola digbyana f. fimbripetala (Ames) O.Gruss & M.Wolff 2007; Brassavola digbyana var fimbripetala [Ames] H.G. Jones 1962; Cattleya digbyana (Lindl.) Gentil 1907; Laelia digbyana [Lindley]Benth. 1880; Laelia digbyana var fimbripetala Ames 1932; Rhyncholaelia digbyana f. fimbripetala [Ames] Hawkes 1964
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR;
Edwards's Bot. Reg. 32: t. 53. Lindley 1846
Edwards's Bot. Reg. 32: t. 53. 1846 as Brassavola digbyana drawing fide;
Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1862 as Bletia digbyana;
Biol. Cent.-Amer., Bot. 3: 246 Benth. ex Hemsl.1884 as Laelia digbyana;
Pl. Cult. Serres Jard. Bot. Brux.: 49 Gentil 1907 as Cattleya digbyana;
Die Orchideen 239 Schlechter 1915 as Brassavola digbyana;
* Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 36(2): 477 Schlechter 1918
Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 as Laelia digbyana drawing fide;
AOS. Bulletin 1: 59 1932 as Laelia digbyana var. fimbripetala
AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 9 1958 as Brassavola digbyana drawing ok;
AOS Bulletin Vol 28 No 5 1959 as Brassavola digbyana drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 28 No 8 1959 as Brassavola digbyana photo fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 23 #5 1959 as Brassavola digbyana photo fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 24 #8 1960 photo fide;
Orchid Rev. 70: 234 H G Jones 1962 as Brassavola digbyana var. fimbripetala
AOS Bulletin Vol 33 No 9 1964 as Brassalvola digbyana photo FIDE;
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965;
AOS Bulletin Vol 38 #11 1969 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 3 1970 as Laelia digbyana var fimbripetala drawing fide;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 10 576 - 632 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 4 1979 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin vol 53 no 10 1984 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol55 No 2 1986 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 56 No 4 1987 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 57 No 1 1988 drawing fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 58 #2 1994; AOS Bulletin Vol 64 No 1 1995 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 66 No 3 1997 as Brassavola digbyana photo fide; Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol 5 Withner 1998; Guatemala Y Sus Orquideas Behar & Tinschert 1998 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 68 No 5 1999 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 64 #2 2000 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 69 No 4 2000 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001; Harvard Pap. Bot. 5 #2: Carnevali etal. 2001; Australian Orchid Review Vol 68 No 1 2003 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 11 2003 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 2 2005 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 9 2005 photo fide; The World's Most Beautiful Orchids Allikas & Nash 2005 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 1 2006 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 # 3 2006 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 8 2006 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 70 #3 2006 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 No 3 2007 photo fide; Orchid. Atlas: 49 O Grus and M Wolff 2007 as Brassavola digbyana f. fimbripetala AOS Bulletin Vol 77 #7 2008 photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum fascile 10 plate 1074 Hagsater & Soto 2008 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 73 #1 2009 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin vol 78 No 5 2009 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 74 #3 2010 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #3 2011 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #7 2011 photo fide;
Algunas Orquideas De Mexico Tomo 1 Suarez 2012 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 83 #4 2014 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 80 #2 2016; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #3 2016 as Brassovola digbyana drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #4 2016 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #6 2016 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #3 2017 photo fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #2 2019 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #5 2019 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #9 2019 photo fide;
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