Anacheilium joaquingarcianum (Pupulin) Withner & P.A.Harding 2004
Photo/TYPE Drawing by © Franco Pupulin, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR
Common Name Joaquin Garcia's Anacheilium [Costa Rican Orchid Enthusiast current]
Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]
Found in Heridia province of Costa Rica in wet lower montane and montane forests at elevations of 1800 to 2000 meters as a medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with a somewhat elongate rhizome giving rise to cylindric, linear to subfusiform, sulcate pseudobulbs enveloped basally by 3, imbricating, acuminate sheaths and carrying 2, apical, linear-elliptic to narrowly elliptic, fleshy, obtuse, narrowing below into the sessile base leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, 7.6" [19 cm] long, many flowered, racemose inflorescence arising through a green spathe and carrying successively opening, non-resupinate flowers opening from the apex down
Similar to and possibly related to Anacheilium radiatum (Lindl.) Pabst, Moutinho & A.V. Pinto 1981 but A joaquingarciana has linear, subterete psuedobulbs spotted tepals, a widely ovate lip and a superposed pair of calli.
Other species that can be confused with A joaquingarciana are Anacheilium baculus [Rchb.f] Withner & Harding 2004 which has a 2 flowered inflorescence and Prosthechea crassilabia which has longer pseudobulbs that carry carry 3 leaves, widely oblong sepals and an inconspicuous lip that is not much longer than the column.
Synonyms *Prosthechea joaquingarciana Pupulin 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Lankester's Epidendra Website CR as Prosthechea joaquingarciana;
Selbyana 22(1):19. 2001 as Prosthechea joaquingarciana;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 as Prosthechea joaquingarciana;
*Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol 6 Withner and Harding 2004;
Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 as Prosthechea joaquingarciana photo fide
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