Anacheilium vita Hunt, Withner & Harding 2004
Photo by Patricia Harding.
Drawing By © Jane Herbst/Withner & Harding
Common Name The Life Anacheilium [In honor of Carl Withner, American orchid enthusiast and his generation of Taxomonists currrent]
Flower Size .75" [2.2 cm]
Found in Ecuador without locational data as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with spindle-shaped, slightly compressed pseuodbulbs carrying 2, apical, linear-lanceolate leaves and blooms in the fall on an erect, terminal, 12 to 13" long, many [30 to 40] flowered inflorescence.
Similar to Anacheilium sceptrum but differs in the 3.2" [8 cm] between each pseudobulb, the three leaves, the inflorescence emerging through a spathe on a mature pseudobulb, the greenish white flowers with lanceolate tepals, the convex lip with dark purple an unguiculate column and a lip more or less basally connate.
Synonyms Prosthechea vita (D.G.Hunt, Withner & P.A.Harding) J.M.H.Shaw 2014
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*The Cattleyas and Their Relatives, the Debateable Epidendrum Withner and Harding 2004 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 9 2008 photo fide
Orchid Rev. 122(1305, Suppl.): 17 J M Shaw 2014 as Prosthechea vita;
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