Stanhopea pseudoradiosa Jenny & R.Gonzalez-Tamayo 1997

Lip Detail Photo courtesy of Dick Hartley Foxdale Orchids

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Common Name The False Radiating Stanhopea

Flower Size

Found in Guerrero, Colima and Oaxaca States of Mexico on the western slopes at elevations of 750 to 1300 meters as a medium sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte and differs from S radiosa by having a less deeply saccate hypochile with a very narrow opening, the horns are elongate triangular and not oblanceolate and last it has a free tooth-like callus on the base of the epichile.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

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