Batemannia lepida Rchb.f. 1878

Photo by © Eerika's Bilder Website

Common Name The Beautiful Batemannia

Flower Size 1.2" [3 mm]

Found in Venezuela, Surinam and Brazil in hot forests at elevations around 100 to 300 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with lightly compressed, clustered, moderately to strongly quadrate pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, mid nerve finely sulcate, carinate, elliptic, acute leaf that blooms in the spring on a basal, 2" [5 cm] long, few flowered inflorescence arising on a newly developing pseudobulb with light green, large, inflated floral bracts and carrying fragrant flowers that smell of sweet mashed stink bug.

CAUTION This species and B colleyii are often confused, I hope that I have them correct here.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 drawing good; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970 drawing good; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 2 Pabst & Dungs 1977 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 Drawing good; The Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb, Laurent 1992 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 28 1713 - 1776 Brieger 1993 not = B colleyi; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 28 1713 - 1776 Brieger 1993 as B colleyi photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing good; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003; Orquideas de Roirama Luz & Franco 2012 photo hmm; Orquideas de Zamora Chinchipe Tomo 1 Epidendroideae I Jimenez & Jimenez 2014 photo fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo ok

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