Prosthechea regentii V.P.Castro & Chiron 2005
Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista
TYPE Drawing by © V P Casatro
Common Name or Meaning Regent's Prosthechea [Brazilain discoverer of species current]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Bahia atate of Brazil in rainforests at elevations around 500 to 700 meters as a hot to warm growing epiphyte with elliptical, laterally strongly compressed, ancipitous pseudobulbs enveloped in youth by deciduous, imbricating sheaths and carrying 2 apical, erect, subcoriaceous, oblanceolate, acute leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, arising through a spathe within a spathe, erect, .6" [1.5 cm] log, 6 to 12 flowered inflorescence and holding the non-resupinate, fleshy flowers in the upper 2/3's of the inflorescence
Synonyms Anacheilium regentii (V.P.Castro & Chiron) Marçal 2005
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Richardiana 5: 87 V.P.Castro & Chiron 2005 drawing fide;
Bol. CAOB 58: 50 Marçal 2005 as Anacheilium regentii;
Icones Orchidacearum Brasilenses Vol II Plate 186 Castro Neto 2006 as Prosthechea regentii drawing fide/photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 9 2008 photo
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