Cochleanthes candida (Lindl.) R.E. Schult. & Garay 1959 Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

? Lip and flower detail Photo by © Lourens Grobler

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Common Name or Meaning The Snow-White Cochleanthes

Flower Size 1 1/4" [3 cm]

This small sized, warm to cool growing, psudobulbless epiphyte has a fan-like spread of linear-lanceolate, acute leaves that are canoe-shaped and attenuate to the leaf sheaths belowleaves and blooms on an axillary, 4 to 4 3/4" [10 to 12 cm] long, erect to arcuate single flowered inflorescence that holds the flower below the leaves occuring in the late fall to winter. It is found in Brazil in the southeastern Atlantic forests at elevations of 200 meters and up in humid, shady locations.

Synonyms Huntleya candida Hort. 1851; Huntleya radians Hort 1860; *Warrea candida Lindl. 1850-1; Warszewiczella candida Rchb.f 1852; Zygopetalum candidum 1863

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;