Prosthechea ochracea (Lindl.) W. E. Higgins 1997
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Common Name The Ochre Yellow Prosthechea
Flower Size .5 to .8" [1.25 to 2 cm]
Found in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama in pastures and disturbed deciduous cloudforests that occurs at elevations of 500 to 3500 meters as a medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with loosely clustered, narrowly ovoid to fusiform-ovoid pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 3 towards the apex, narrowly ligulate-elliptic to ligulate-lanceolate, acute or narrowly obtuse leaves that blooms mostly in the spring and summer but possible at any time, on an apical, to 12" [6 to 30 cm] long, simple, pendulous to arching, densly many [6 to 12] flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb and is shorter or just as long as the leaves and carries non-resupinate, successive opening, fleshy, cup shaped flowers. This species can be distinguished from E maculosa by not having a warty-echinate surface on the flowers.
Synonyms Encyclia ochracea (Lindl.) Dressler 1961; *Epidendrum ochraceum Lindl. 1838; Epidendrum pachyriferum Schlechter ?; Epidendrum parviflorum Sessé & Moc. 1894; Epidendrum triste A. Rich. & Gal. 1845;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Bonplandia Rchb.f 1856 as Epidendrum ochraceum;
The Genus Epidendrum Ames 1936 as Epidendrum ochraceum;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 9 513 - 576 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977;
AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 5 1979;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 693 Dodson 1982 drawing fide;
Manual of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb, & Launert 1992;
Manual Of Orchids Stewart 1995;
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