Anacheilium venezuelanum (Schltr.) Withner & P.A.Harding 2004
Photo by Patricia Harding
Drawing By © Fritz Hamer
Common Name The Venezuelan Anacheilium
Flower Size 1 1/4" [3.1 cm]
Found in Venezuela, Risaralda, Santander, Cundinamarca and Valle de Cauca departments of Colombia and Ecuador in wet montane forests at elevations around 450 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with a short, creeping rhizome giving rise to an oblong-ovoid, flattened, longitudinally ribbed pseudobulb carrying a single apical, erect, naarrowly elliptic-oblong, obtuse apically leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on an erect, terminal, arising on a mature growth through a prominent spathe, 2" [5 cm] long, 5 to 7 flowered inflorescence with triangullar, acute, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts and carrying non resupinate flowers.
Distinguished by the unifoliate, ribbed pseudobulbs, the inflorescence produced from mature growths, the obvious spathe at the base of the inflorescence, the 5 to 7, greenish white flowers with red-brown stripes on the lip and the column with narrow wings on each side of the stigma and the knob like projections over tha anther.
Synonyms Encyclia venezuelana (Schltr.) Dressler 1971; *Epidendrum venezuelanum Schltr. 1919; Prosthechea venezuelana (Schltr.) W.E.Higgins 1997 publ. 1998
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 6: 38 Schelchter 1919 as Epidendrum venezuelanum;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 6: 73 Schlechter 1919 as Epidendrum venezuelanum;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. Figuren-Atlas 57: 22 Schlechter 1929 as Epidendrum venezuelanum drawing fide;
Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970 as Epidendrum venezuelanum;
Phytologia 21: 436 Dressler & Pollard 1971 as Encyclia venezuelana;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 459 Dodson 1989 as Encyclia venezuelana drawing fide;
Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 as A fragrans photo fide;
Native Colombian Orchid Vol 1 COS 1990 as A fragrans = A venezuelana photo fide;
Phytologia 82: 376 W E Higgins 1997 publ. 1998 as Prosthechea venezuelana;
Native Colombian Orchid Vol 6 COS 1998 errata = A venezuelana;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 as Prosthechea venezuelana drawing fide;
*The Cattleyas and Their Relatives, the Debateable Epidendrum Withner and Harding 2004 photo fide;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 as Prosthechea venezuelana drawing ok;
Orchids of the Department of Valle de Cauca Colombia Vol 2 Kolanowska, Hagsater etal 2014 as Prosthechea venezuelana drawing fide;
LANKESTERIANA 19(2).125 - 193 Ossenbach & Jenny 2019 as Epidendrum venezuelanum drawing fide
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:399 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing/photo fide;
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