Coelia macrostachya Lindl. 1842
Photos by © Lourens Grobler
Drawing by © Hamer
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Common Name or Meaning The Large Raceme Coelia
Flower Size About 1/2" [1.5 cm]
Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Costa Rica and Panama as a medium to large sized, warm to cold growing epipytic, lithophytic or terrestrial herb with clustered, ovoid to ellipsoid, olive green pseudobulbs carrying up to 5 apical, subplicate, coriaceous, linear-elliptic, acuminate leaves at elevations of 500 to 2500 meters in mountain rainforest, pine-oak, liquambar forest or dwarf forests of higher or exposed elevations that blooms in the spring and summer with a cylindrical, crowded, 18 to 24" [45 to 60 cm] long, basal raceme arising on a newly emerging pseudobulb with large, scarious, lanceolate to linear lanceolate floral bracts that sheath the many, fragrant flowers.
Synonyms Bothriochilus macrostachyus (Lindl.) L.O. Williams 1940; Coelia macrostachya var. genuina Rchb.f. 1866; Coelia macrostachya var. integrilabia Rchb.f. 1866
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915;
Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing fide;
Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 33. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923;
The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946 as Bothriochilus macrostachyus drawing ok;
AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 5 1963 as Bothrochilus macrostachys photo fide;
Encylopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Bothriochilus macrostachys drawing ok;
Las Orquedias De El Salvador Hamer 1974 as Bothriochilus macrostachys drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 5 1979 as Bothriochilus macrostachys;
Orquídea (Mexico City), n.s., 7[3]: 1979;
AOS Bulletin Vol 50 No 5 1981 Bothriochilus macrostachys drawing fide;
Las Orquideas De El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing fide;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 15 881 - 944 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1984 as Bothrochilus macrostachyus photo/drawing ok;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1002 Hamer & Dodson 1984 as Bothrochilus macrostachys drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 56 No 6 1987 drawing/photo fide;
Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 as Bothrochilus macrostachyus drawing fide;
Guatemala Y Sus Orquideas Behar & Tinschert 1998 photo fide;
Icones Orchidacearum I Plate 8 Salazar 1990 drawing fide;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 drawing fide;
Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 photos fide;
Guia de Orquideas de Chiapas Carlos Rommel Beutelspacher Baigts 2013 photo fide;
Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 84 #2 2015 photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:361 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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