Anancheilium chimborazoense [Schltr] Withner & Harding 2004
Photo by Jay Pfahl
Drawing By © Lisa Megahee/Dodson
Common Name or Meaning The Chimborazo Anacheilium [A province of Ecuador]
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found from Panama, Antioquia, Caqueta and Meta departments of Colombia Ecuador and Venezuela occuring in tall trees and trees hanging over rivers at elevations up to 150 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with oblong, compressed pseudobulbs carrying a single, lanceolate, acute leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on a terminal, from a spathe, to 4.8" [12 cm] long, few to several [3 to 15] flowered inflorescence with deltoid, acuminate, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts and carrying large, fragrant, non resupinate flowers.
Easily distinguished from Anacheilium fragrans (Sw.) Acuña 1939 by the spots at the base of the petals and column.
Synonyms Encyclia chimborazoensis (Schltr.) Dressler 1971 ; *Epidendrum chimborazoense Schlechter 1916; Hormidium chimbrazoensis [Schltr.] Breiger 1977; Prosthechea chimborazoensis [Schltr] Higgins 1997
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 14: 389 Schlechter 1916 as Epidendrum chimborazoense;
AOS Bulletin Vol 29 No 9 1960 as Epidendrum chimborazoensis photo fide;
Phytologia 21: 436 Dressler & Pollard 1971 as Encyclia chiomborazoensis;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 9 513 - 576 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977 as Hormidium chimborazoense;
Orchids from The Coast Of Ecuador Arosemana, Jurado, Estrada and Konanz 1988 as Encyclia chimborazoense photo fide;
A Field Guide to the Orchids Of Costa Rica Dressler 1993 as Encyclia chimborazoense;
Phytologia 82: 376 W E Higgins 1997 publ. 1998 as Prosthechea chimborazoensis
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 067 Dodson 1980 as Encyclia chimborazoense drawing fide;
*The Cattleyas and Their Relatives, the Debateable Epidendrum Withner and Harding 2004 photo fide;
Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 as Protheschea chimborazoensis drawing/photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:400 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing/photo fide;
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