Hormidium rhynchophorum Withner & Harding 2004;
Photo by © Eric Hunt
Photo by Patricia Harding
Drawing by Fritz Hamer
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Common Name The Beak-Carrying Hormidium
Flower Size 1 3/4" [4cm]
Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua as a small to medium sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte occuring at altitudes of 950 to 2000 meters in wet montane forests with loosely clustered, ovoid pseudobulbs partially enveloped basally by a few scarious sheaths and carrying a single, apical, strap-shaped, gradually tapering below into the conduplicate, clasping base leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on an apical, terminal, 10" [25 cm] long, simple, 3 to 7 flowered inflorescence that arises from a newly forming pseudobulb carrying very fragrant, resupinate flowers.
Puebla Mx., 1494m elev., 6 klm. East of Villa Juarez, epiphytic on pines growing on steep hillside, plentiful on pines only.
Synonyms Encyclia rhynchophora (A. Rich. & Galeotti) Dressler 1961; *Epidendrum rhynchophorum A. Rich. & Galeotti 1845; Prosthechea rhynchophora (A. Rich. & Galeotti) W. E. Higgins 1997
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 3, 3: 20 A Rich. & Galeotti 1845 as Epidendrum rhynchophorum
The Genus Epidendrum Ames 1936 as Epidendrum rhynchophorum;
Ceiba Vol 5 No 1 L O Williams 1956 as Epidenrum rhynchophorum;
Brittonia 13: 265 Dressler 1961 as Encyclia rhynchophora;
Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 1 Hamer 1974 as Epidendrum rhynchophorum drawing/photo fide;
Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 as Epidendrum rhynchophorum drawing fide;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 697 Dodson 1982 as Encyclia rhynchophora drawing fide;
Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 as Encyclia rhynchophora drawing fide;
Phytologia 82: 380 W E Higgins 1997 publ. 1998 as Prosthechea rhynchophorum;
* The Cattleyas and Their Relatives, the Debateable Epidendrum Withner and Harding 2004; photo fide;
Guia de Orquideas de Chiapas Carlos Rommel Beutelspacher Baigts 2013 as Prosthechea rhynchophora photo fide;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 as Prosthechea rhynchophora
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:396 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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