Cochleanthes ionoleuca (Rchb. f.) R.E. Schult. & Garay 1959 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 Cochleanthes
Flower Size 1 1/2" [3.75 cm]
Found in Colombia and Ecuador at elevations of 30 to 1300 meters as a medium sized, warm 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 Warczewiczella ionoleuca (Rchb. f.) Schltr. 1920; *Zygopetalum ionoleucum Rchb. f
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006;
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