Anacheilium spondiadum (Rchb.f.) ex Nir Withner & P.A.Harding 2004
Photo by © Adam Karremans
Photo by © Walter Schug
Photo by Patricia Harding
Drawing By © Alfaro/Atwood
THROUGH EARLY
Common Name or Meaning The Plum Tree Anacheilium [refers to the flowers color]
Flower Size 2.2" [5.5 cm]
Found in Costa Rica, Jamaica, and Panama in premontane rainforests in open canopies at elevations of 900 to 2100 meters as a medium sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with cylindric to narrowly ovoid, furrowed with age psuedobulbs enveloped almost completely in youth by several, imbricate, scarious sheaths and carrying a single, apical, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, basally clasping leaf and blooms in the fall through spring on a terminal, arising from a spathe on a newly matured pseudobulb, few [3 to 4] flowered inflorescence carrying non-resupinate flowers.
Synonyms Anacheilium spondiadum ( Rchb.f. ) Nir 2000; Encyclia spondiadum ( Rchb.f. ) Dressler 1971; Epidendrum playcardium Schlechter 1922; *Epidendrum spondiadum Rchb.f. 1852; Hormidium spondiadum [Rchb.f] Breiger 1977; Prosthechea spondiada ( Rchb.f. ) W.E.Higgins 1997
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Lankester's Epidendra Website CR as Protheschea spondiada;
Bot. Zeit. (Berlin) 10: 731. 1852 as Epidendrum spondianum;
Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as Epidendrum spondiadum;
Flora of Jamaica Fawcett & Rendle 1910 as Epidendrum spondiadum;
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Epidendrum spondianum;
Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 17: 36. Panama Schlechter 1922 as Epidendrum platycardium;
The Genus Epidendrum Ames 1936 as Epidendrum spondiadum;
The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946 as Epidendrum spondiadum;
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Epidendrum spondianum;
Phytologia 21: 436 Dressler & Pollard 1971 as Encyclia spondiadum;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 9 513 - 576 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977 as Hormidium spondiadum;
Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide;
Manual of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb, & Launert 1992 as Encyclia spondiana photo fide;
A Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993 as Encyclia spondiada;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1428 Mora & Atwood 1992 as Encyclia spondiada drawing fide;
Orchids of Jamaica Gloudin & Tobisch 1995 as Encyclia spondiana;
Phytologia 82: 376 W E Higgins 1997 publ. 1998 as Prosthechea spondiadum;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 as Prosthechea spondiana;
*The Cattleyas and Their Relatives, the Debateable Epidendrum Withner and Harding 2004 photo fide; Lankesteriana 19(1). 31 - 55 2019 a Prosthechea spondiana photo fide; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 as Prosthechea sponiana photo fide
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