!Cochleanthes flabelliformis (Sw.) R.E. Schult. & Garay 1959 Photo courtesy of Tennis Maynard

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Common Name or Meaning The Fan-Shaped Cochleanthes - In Cuba - Lechuga

Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]

Found in Jamaica, Honduras, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Colombia and Brazil at elevations of 800 to 1200 meters as a caespitose, small to medium sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte or lithophyte in deep shade with ample humidity and has basally overlapping, linear-lanceolate, pale green, basally articulate leaves that are held in a loose, 2 ranked fan which blooms in the summer on a stout, erect, axillary, 4" [10 cm] long peduncle with a single, waxy, short-lived flower which is large and fragrant.

Synonyms Chondrorhyncha flabelliformis (Sw.) Alai 1962; Cochleanthes fragrans Raf. 1836; Cymbidium flabellifolium Griseb. 1864; Cymbidium flabelliforme (Sw.) Sw 1799; *Epidendrum flabelliforme Sw. 1788; Eulophia cochlearis (Lindl.) Steud. 1840; Eulophia cochleata Hort. 1838; Huntleya imbricata Hort. ex Rchb.f 1852; Pescatorea cochlearis Rolfe 1906; Warszewiczella cochlearis [Lindley] Rchb.f 1852; Warszewiczella cochleata [Lindley] Barb. Rodr. 1883; Warczewiczella flabelliformis (Sw.) Cogn. 1909; Warczewiczella gibeziae Rchb.f 1892; Zygopetalum cochleare Lindley 1836; Zygopetalum cochleatum Paxt 1838; Zygopetalum conchaceum Hoffm.1863; Zygopetalum flabelliforme (Sw.) Rchb. f. 1861; Zygopetalum gibeziae N.E.Br. 1888

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 638 Dodson 1982; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000; The Orchids of Cuba Llamacho & Larramendi 2005; Orquideas de la Republica Dominicana Y Haiti Fernandez 2007