Coryanthes alborosea C. Schweinf. 1943 SUBGENUS Lamellunguis
Photos by © David Jubineau
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Common Name The White Rose Coryanthes
Flower Size 1 1/2" [6 cm]
Found in Peru at elevations around 100 meters as a small sized, hot growing, caespitose epiphyte in hot tropical forest, often in ant's nests at lower elevations with ovoid-pyriform, sulcate, bifoliate pseudobulbs and plicate, narrowly lanceolate leaves with a short sulcate petiole which blooms on a lateral, pendant, basal, 6 1/4" [17 cm] long, 1 or 2 flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb with 2 inflated, tubular-infundibuliform floral bracts occuring in the fall.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 9 1958 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 42 No 1 1978 photo; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 022 Bennett & Christenson 1993 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Lieferung 37-8 1999 2 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 37/38 pg 2309 - 2436 Brieger 1999 1 photo not; AOS Bulletin Vol 71 No 3 2002 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 5 2004 photo fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Richardiana Vol 5 Chiron & Marcal 2021 Une Orginisation infragenerique de Coryanthes [Orchidaceae] photo fide;
Coryanthes alborosea C. Schweinf. 1943 var alba
Photos by © Patricia Harding
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
An all white version of the orchid
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Digest Vol 42 No 1 1978 photo fide;
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