Anaceilium widgrenii [Lindl.] Pabst, Moutinho & Pinto 1981 Photo by Luiz Felipe Varela P> to to

Common Name Widgren's Anacheilium [Swedish Plant Collector in Brazil early 1800's]

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Minas Gerais state of Brazil at elevations of 500 to 1000 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with cylindrical, slightly flattened pseudobulbs carrying 2 apical leaves that blooms at any time of the year on a terminal, 2 to 4.8" [5 to 12 cm] long, racemose few [6 to 8] flowered inflorescence with a ], non-resupinate flowers.

This species can be confused withAnacheilium papilio but A widgrenii has reflexed petals and a flower that is twice the size of the former.

Synonyms Encyclia widgrenii (Lindl.) Pabst 1976; *Epidendrum widgrenii Lindl. 1853; Hormidium widgrenii [Lindl.] Brieger 1961; Prosthechea widgrenii (Lindl.) W.E.Higgins 1997

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Fol. Orchid. 3: 39 Lindley 1853 as Epidendrum widgrenii; Publ. Ci. Inst. Genét. Esc. Super. Agric. Luis de Queiroz 1: 20 Brieger 1960 as Hormidium widgrenii;

Orchidaceae Brasilensis Pabst & Dungs 1972 as Encyclia widgrenii; Bradea 2: 81 Pabst 1976 as Encyclia widgrenii;

Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 9 513 - 576 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977 as Hormidium widgrenii;

Phytologia 82: 376 W E Higgins 1997 publ. 1998 as Prosthechea widgrenii;

The Cattleyas and Their Relatives, the Debateable Epidendrum Withner and Harding 2004 photo fide;

Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 as Prosthechea widgrenii photo fide; *Colet. Orquídeas Brasil. 13: 532 Campacci 2018

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