Anacheilium mejia Withner & P.A.Harding 2004
Photos by © and The Epidendra Website
TYPE Drawing by © Jane Herbst/Withner& Harding
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Common Name Mejia's Anacheilium [Esperanza Mejia Colombian Orchid Enthusiast current]
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in southern Colombia without locational data as a large sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with spindle-shaped, slightly compressed pseudobulbs carrying 3, apical, erect leaves that blooms in the later summer and early fall on a terminal, erect, 6 to 12" [15 to 30 cm] long, to twenty flowered inflorescence.
"Somewhat similar to Prosthechea grammatoglossa 1997
Synonyms Prosthechea mejia (Withner & P.A.Harding) W.E.Higgins 2009
ReferencesW3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*The Cattleyas and Their Relatives, The Debateable Epidendrum Vol 7 Withner and Harding 2004 drawing/photo fide;
Selbyana 29: 214 W E Higgins 2009 as Prosthechea meijia;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:411 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing/photo fide;
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