Anacheilium radiatum (Lindl.) Pabst, Moutinho & A.V. Pinto 1981
Photo by © Diederick Antoni
Photos by © Jay Pfahl
Drawing By © Fritz Hamer
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Common Name The Lined Petal Anacheilium - In Mexico "Flor Conchita"
Flower Size to around 1" [to 2.5 cm]
Found in San Luis Potosi, Queretaro Hidalgo, Puebla, Veracruz, Oaxaca, Tabasco and Chiapas states of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and Belize to Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Venezuela? in varied type forests which include tropial evergreen, mixed pine and oak at an altitude of 150-2000 meters as a small to medium szied, hot to cool growing epiphyte with ellipsoid to elliptic-ovoid, slightly compressed, grooved pseudobulbs partially enveloped basally by a few scarious sheaths carrying 2 to 4, towards the apex, lanceolate-elliptic, obtuse or broadly acute leaves. It is a very fragrant species that blooms in the fall, winter and spring on an apical, short to 4" [10 cm], few to many [4 to 12] flowered inflorescence with non-resupinate, fragrant [sometimes not so good], heavy textured, cockleshell flowers and is easy to grow.
This species does well mounted on wood or tree fern, or in a wire basket with wood chips.
Synonyms Encyclia radiata [Lindley]Dressler 1961 ; Epidendrum marginatum Lk., Kl. & Otto 1841 Not L.C.Rich; *Epidendrum radiatum Lindley 1841; Prosthechea radiata (Lindl.) W. E. Higgins 1997
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Lankester's Epidendra Website CR as Protheschea radiata;
Edwards's Bot. Reg. 27(Misc.): 58 Lindley 1841 as Epidendrum radiatum; Icon. Pl. Rar. 2: 90 J.F.Klotzsch & C.F.Otto, 1842 as Epidendrum marginatum; nom. illeg.
Gard. Chron., ser. 3, 5: 43 Rchb.f 1889 as Epidendrum radiatum var fuscatum
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Epidendrum radiatum photo fide;
The Genus Epidendrum Ames 1936 as Epidendrum radiatum;
Orchids of Guatemala and Belize Ames and Corell 1952 as Epidendrum radiatum;
Ceiba Vol 5 No 1 L O Williams 1956 as Epidendrum radiatum;
Brittonia 13: 265 Dressler 1961 as Encyclia radiata;
AOS Bulletin Vol 31 No 3 1962 as Epidendrum radiatum photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 31 No 3 1963 as Epidendrum radiatum photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 33 NO 3 1964 as Epidendrum radiatum photo fide;
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Epidendrum radiatum;
Manual of Orchids Stewart 1992 as Encyclia radiata;
Flora de Venezuela Vol XV Tercera Parte Foldats 1970 as Epidendrum radiatum;
Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 1 Hamer 1974 drawing/photo fide;
The Genus Encyclia in Mexico Dressler & Pollard 1976 as Encyclia radiata;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 9 513 - 576 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977 as Hormidium radiatum fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 5 1979 as Encyclia radiata;
Orquídea (Mexico City), n.s., 7[3]: 1979 as Encyclia radiata drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 50 No 3 1981 as Epidendrum radiatum photo fide;
* Bradea 3: 184 Pabst, Moutinho & A.V.Pinto 1981;
Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 as Epidendrum radiatum drawing fide;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 696 Hamer 1982 as Encyclia radiata drawing fide;
An Introdution to the Orchids of Mexico Wiard 1987 as Encyclia radiata photo fide;
Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 as Encyclia radiata drawing fide;
Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb, Laurent 1992 as Encyclia radiata drawing fide;
A Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993 as Encyclia radiata;
Phytologia 82: 376 W E Higgins 1997 publ. 1998 as Prosthechea radiata;
Guatemala Y Sus Orquideas Behar & Tinschert 1998 as Encyclia radiata photo fide;
Harvard Pap. Bot. 5 #2: Carnevali etal. 2001 as Prosthechea radiata;
Flora's Orchids Nash & La Croix as Protheschea radiata;
Botanica's Orchids Laurel Glenn 2002 as Protheschea radiata;
AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 5 2003 as Encyclia radiata photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 8 2004 as Encyclia radiata photo fide;
Algunas Orquideas de Oaxaca Suarez 2004 as Prosthechea radiata photo 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 Prosthechea cochleata drawing/photo fide
Icones Orchidacearum fascile 10 plate 1072 Hagsater & Soto 2008 as Prosthechea radiata drawing fide;
Guia de Orquideas de Chiapas Carlos Rommel Beutelspacher Baigts 2013 as Prosthechea radiata photo fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 80 #2 2016 as Prosthechea radiata photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #7 2016 as Prosthechea radiata photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #8 2016 as Prosthechea radiata photo fide;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 as Prosthechea radiata;
The Orchid Review Vol 127 No 1328 December 2019 as Prosthechea radiata photo fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 84 #1 2020 photo fide;
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