Stanhopea frymirei Dodson 1975 Photo courtesy of Dale Borders.

Another Clone Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding.

Common Name Frymire's Stanhopea [American Botanist late 20th century]

Flower Size 6" [15 cm]

Ecuador - Alt 50-500 meters - Flowers in Summer and Autumn - High humidity and bright light - Warm

Found in Western Ecuador in wet montane forests at elevations of 25 to 500 meters on the summits of coastal mountains with ribbed, ovate, dark green pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, plicate, broadly elliptic, acute, gradually narrows below into the elongate petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer and fall on a pendant, racemose, 12" [30 cm] long, few to several [5 to 9] flowered inflorescence partially enveloped by large chartaceous bracts with large, fragrant flowers.

References W3 Tropicos [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html] , Kew Monocot list [ http://www.kew.org/wcsp/home.do ], IPNI [ http://www.us.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?request_type=search&output_format=query&ret_defaults=on ] Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 320 Dodson 1980

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