Warczewiczella ionoleuca (Rchb. f.) Schltr. 1920 Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding
Flower Fully Open Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl, plant grown by JEM Orchids
Common Name or Meaning The Violet-Blue White Warczewiczella
Flower Size 1 1/2" [3.75 cm]
Found in Colombia and Ecuador at elevations of 30 to 1300 meters as a medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with no pseudobulbs that has a fan of lanceolate, conduplicate below, acute leaves that blooms in the spring on an axillary, pendant, 2" [5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with a single, tubular below the middle bract.
Synonyms Cochleanthes ionoleuca (Rchb. f.) R.E. Schult. & Garay 1959; *Zygopetalum ionoleucum Rchb. f
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Colombian Orchid Vol 1 COS 1990 as Cochleanthes ionoleuca photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 27 1648 - 1712 Brieger 1993 as Cochleanthes ionoleuca; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1993 as Cochleanthes ionoleuca photo fide; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005 as Cochleanthes ionoleuca drawing fide; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 as Cochleanthes ionoleuca drawing not = W marginata?; Huntleyas and Related Orchids Harding 2008 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 28 #2 2011 photo fide;
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