Sudamerlycaste lata (Rolfe) Archila 2002
Photo by © Eric Hunt
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Common Name The Wide Sudamerlycaste [refers to the short, wide tepals]
Flower Size 1.4" [3.5 cm]
Found in Ecuador and Peru as a small sized, cool growing orchid with oblong-ellipsoid, slightly compressed, hexangular with blunt edges pseudobulbs carrying 2, elliptic-lanceolate, plicate, gradually narrowing below into the shortly petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, 1.2 to 3.2" [3 to 8 cm] long, single flowered inflorescnece carrying flowers with no fragrance.
Synonyms Ida lata [Rolfe] Oakley 2003; Ida portillae Hort; Lycaste fowliei Oakeley 1994; *Lycaste lata Rolfe 1910; Sudamerlycaste fowliei (Oakeley) Archila 2002
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetaru Tropicarum Plate 0092 Dodson & Bennett 1989 as Lycaste lata drawing hmm; AOS Bulletin Vol 60 No 4 1991; Orchid Digest Vol 58 No 1 1994 as Lycaste fowleyi photo fide;Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen lieferung 29 1777 - 1840 Brieger 1994 as Lycaste lata; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 44-45 pg 2763 - 2898 Brieger 2001 as Ida lata; *Orchid Digest Vol 67 [1] 17, 22 2003; Lycaste, Ida and Anguloa, The Essential Guide Oakley 2008; Orchids A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 as Ida lata photo ok?;
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