Coryanthes mastersiana F. Lehm. 1891 SUBGENUS Coryanthes
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Common Name Master's Coryanthes [English Orchid Book Publisher 1800's]
Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]
Found in Colombia and Ecuador in lowland rainforests, mangrove swamps and the banks of small streams as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte at an elevation of sea level to 700 meters with erect, clustered, fusiform, longitudinally grooved pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, erect, plicate, oblanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the grooved base leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a basal, pendant, 12" [30 cm] long, few flowered inflorescence with 3 tubular bracts spaced evenly apart over the whole length and carrying fragrant flowers.
Pers Comm; All of the above photos are referabe to C mastersiana which is a highly variable entity that is consistent through being from the western coastal plain of Colombia and they all have the same fragrance. For more information on this please refer to the article below in Lankesteriana 11[3] December 2011
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI 97 - 114 Hoehne 1942; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 1 COS 1990 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 18 #1 1991 Photo fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1993 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 37/38 pg 2309 - 2436 Brieger 1999; Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 1 2004 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 2 2004 photo fide; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005; Orquideologia Vol 24 #2 Luer & Escobar 2006 photo fide; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo fide; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007; Orquideologia Vol 26 #2 2009 drawing/photo fide; THE GENUS CORYANTHES A PARADIGM IN ECOLOGY - Gerlach Lankesteriana 11/[3] december 2011 drawing/photo fide; Orchids of Tropical America an introduction and guide Meisel 2014 photos fide; Orchid Digest Vol 79 #1 2015 photo fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo fide; Richardiana Vol 5 Chiron & Marcal 2021 Une Orginisation infragenerique de Coryanthes [Orchidaceae] photo hmm
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