Anacheilium vagans (Ames) Withner & P.A.Harding 2004
Photo by © Franco Pupulin, Used under permission of the Epidendra Website CR
Drawing by © Fritz Hamer
Common Name The Scattered Anacheilium [refers to the plants growth habit]
Flower Size to 1.6" [4 cm]
Found in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Costa Rica at elevations of 1400 to 1950 meters as a miniature to small sized, erect, cool growing epiphyte with an elongated, creeping rhizome with 2 to 2.4" [5 to 6 cm] between each spindle-shaped pseudobulb enveloppd in youth by imbricate sheaths and carrying 3 to 4, apical, linear-lanceolate leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, loose, 3.2" [8 cm] long, few flowered inflorescence arising on a newly maturing pseudobulb with non-resupinate flowers.
Differs from others in the characteristic colorpattern of the flowers, the creeping habit and the pseudobulbs carrying 3 leaves with an odd yellow venation.
Synonyms Encyclia vagans (Ames) Dressler & Pollard 1971; Epidendrum vagans Ames 1923; Prosthechea vagans (Ames) W.E. Higgins 1997
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Lankester's Epidendra Website CR;
Schedul. Orchid. 6: 76 Ames 1923 as Epidendrum vagans;
The Genus Epidendrum Ames 1936 as Epidendrum vagans;
Ceiba Vol 5 No 1 L O Williams 1956 as Epiden drum vagans;
Phytologia 21: 436 Dressler & Pollard 1971 as Encyclia vagans;
Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 1 Hamer 1974 as Epidendrum vagans drawing/photo fide;
Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 as Epidendrum vagans drawing fide;
Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 as Encyclia vagans drawing fide;
Manual of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb, & Launert 1992 as Encyclia vagans photo fide;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1519 Atwwod & Mora 1993 as Encyclia vagans drawing fide;
Phytologia 82: 376 W E Higgins 1997 publ. 1998 as Prosthechea vagans;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 as Prosthechea vagans;
*Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol 7 Withner & Harding 2004 photo fide;
Lankesteriana 19(1). 31 - 55 2019 as Prosthechea vagans photo fide;
Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 as Prosthechea vagans photo fide
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