Cochleanthes aromatica [Rchb.f] Schultes & Garay 1954 Photo by © Lourens Grobler

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Common Name or Meaning The Aromatic Cochleanthes

Flower Size 3 1/2" to 5" [8.75 to 12.5 cm]

Found in Costa Rica and Panama as a small to just medium sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte occurring at 1000 to 2000 meters without pseudobulbs, yet having plicate, linear-ligulate to ellptic-lanceolate, acute to shortly acuminate leaves held in a fan-shape that blooms mostly in August till October on an erect to arcuate, axillary, 3 to 4" [7.5 to 20 cm] long, erect peduncle with a solitary, large, heavy textured, long-lived fragrant flower held amid or below the leaves.

Synonyms Bollea wendlandi Rchb. f. 1888; Bollea wendlandiana Rchb.f; Chondrorhyncha aromatica [Rchb.f] P.H.Allen 1949; Huntleya aromatica Batem 1837; Warscewiczella aromatica [Rchb.f]Rchb.f 1863; Warscewiczella wendlandii [Rchb.f]Schlechter 1918; Zygopetalum aromaticum Rchb. f. 1852; Zygopetalum wendlandi Rchb. f. 1866

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 10: 668. 1852 as Zygopetalum aromaticum; *Bot. Mus. Leafl. 28: 323. 1954; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854 drawing fide; Beitr. Orchid.-K. C. Amer. 74-75. 1866 as Zygopetalum wendlandii; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 53. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as Warszewiczella wendlandi; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005; Huntleya and Related Orchids Harding 2008

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