Prosthechea tigrina [Linden Ex Lindley] Higgins 1997 Vespa Complex
Photo by Patricia Harding
Drawing by © Dunsterville & Garay
Common Name or Meaning The Tiger Prosthechea [refers to the spotted flowers]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Brazil, Venezuela, Boyaca, Antioquia, Tolima, Choco', Cauca and Putumayo departments of Colombia, Carchi province of Ecuador, Peru and the Guianas at elevations of 2100 to 2700 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial occuring in deep forests with elongate, tall and slender, lightly compressed pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 4 lanceolate leaves that blooms in the summer, fall and winter on an erect, terminal, few to many flowered, 8 to 12" [20 to 30 cm] long inflorescence with ovate, acute, much shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying fleshy flowers.
Differs from P vespa but differs in subsessile to shortly clawed, subflabellate to broadly ovate lip in outline versus a long clawed, triangular-cordate to rhombic lip." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023
Synonyms Anacheilium tigrinum [Linden ex Lindl.] Withner & Harding 2004; Aulizeum tigrinum Lindl. ex Stein 1892; Encyclia tigrina (Linden ex Lindl.) Carnevali & I. Ramírez 1986; *Epidendrum tigrinum Linden Ex Lindley 1846; Hormidium tigrinum [Linden ex Lindley] Brieger 1977;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Orchid. Linden.: 9 Linden ex Lindley 1846 as Epidendrum trigrinum;
Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854 as Epidendrum tigrinum;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 6: 73 Schlechter 1919 as Epidendrum tigrinum;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 252 Schlechter 1920 as Epidendrum tigrinum;
Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961 as syn to Epidendrum vespa;
Orchid Digest Vol 36 No 2 1972 as Epidendrum tigrinum photo fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Pabst & Dungs 1972 as Epidendrum tigrinum;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 9 513 - 576 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977 sa Hormidium tigrinum;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Dunsterville and Garay 1979 as Epidendrum tigrinum drawing ok;
AOS Bulletin Vol 49 #7 1980 as Epidendrum tigrinum photo fide;
Ernstia 36: 9 Carnevali & Ramirez 1986 as Encyclia tigrina;
*Phytologia 82: 381 W E Higgins 1997 publ. 1998;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 as Prosthechea tigrina drawing ok;
AOS Bulletin Vol 71 # 8 2020 photo fide;
Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 as Prosthechea tigrina;
The Cattleyas and Their Relatives, the Debateable Epidendrum Withner and Harding 2004 as Anacheileum tigrina photo fide;
Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide;
Orchids of the Department of Valle de Cauca Colombia Vol 2 Kolanowska, Hagsater etal 2014 as Prosthechea tigrina drawing fide;
Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:382 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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