Stanhopea reichenbachiana (Roezl ex Rchb. f.) Roezl ex Rchb. f. 1879 SUBGENUS Candida
Photo by Greg Allikas and his Orchid Photo Page
Photo by Dick Hartley Foxdale Orchids
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Common Name Reichenbach's Stanhopea [German Orchid Botanist and Collector 1800's]
Flower Size 3.6 to 4.4" [9 to 11 cm]
Found in Ecuador and Colombia at elevations of 500 to 1000 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte occuring in wet forests, in wet, inaccessible rainforest and on deforested cliffbanks with ovate, strongly ribbed and furrowed with age pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, plicate, coarse, leathery, lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the channeled, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer and fall on a basal, pendulous, 6 to 8" [15 to 20 cm] long, 2 to 4 flowered inflorescence subtended by large, chartaceous, oblong ovate bracts and has a spicy jasmine smell to the large, porcelain white flowers.
Synonyms Stanhopea amesiana hort. 1893; Stanhopea lowii Rolfe; Stanhopea lowii var. amesiana hort. ex Sander; Stanhopea suavis Ospina
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 57 No 1 1993 photo fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 37/38 pg 2309 - 2436 Brieger 1999 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 7 2003 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 2 2004 photo fide; Caesiana Vol 22 Stanhopea Part 2 Jenny 2004 drawing/photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 70 #3 2006 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 81 #9 2012 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 80 #2 2016; Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide
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