Sudamerlycaste fragans (Oakeley) Archila 2002SECTION Ciliatae Oakley 2008
Photo by © Karl Senghas and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Photo by Orquideas del Valle and their Orchid Website
Common Name The Fragrant Sudamerlycaste
Flower Size 2.2 to 2.45" [5.3 to 6.2 cm]
Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru at elevations of 1400 to 1900 meters as a large sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte or terrestrial with truncated, ovoid-conical pseudobulbs unspined after leaf fall and carrying 2 to3, plicate, tapering below into the petilate base leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, 5.6 to 6.4" [14 to 16 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with night fragrant flowers
Synonyms Ida fragrans Oakley 2003; *Lycaste fragrans Oakley 1994;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Digest Vol 58 No 1 1994 as Lycaste fragrans photo ok; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen lieferung 29 1777 - 1840 Brieger 1994 as Lycaste fragrans drawing fide/photo fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 as Lycaste fragrans photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 44-45 pg 2763 - 2898 Brieger 2001 as Ida fragrans; Lycaste, Ida and Anguloa, The Essential Guide Oakley 2008; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Orchids A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 as Ida fragrans photo fide;
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