Lycaste bradeorum Schltr. 1923 SECTION Aromaticae
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Photo by Allen Black
TYPE Drawing by Schlechter
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Common Name The Brade Brother's Lycaste [Costa Rican Botanists 20th cen]
Flower Size to almost 3" [to almost 7.6 cm]
Found in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica in wet tropical forests in light shade as a medium to large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte at elevations of 700 to 1250 meters with ovoid, flattened pseudobulbs with 2 short spines after leaf-fall and carrying 2 to 3, plicate, ribbed, elliptic, basally clasping, deciduous leaves and blooms in the late winter and spring after leaf-fall on an erect, 2 to 4" [5 to 10 cm] long, single flowered, short inflorescence arising on a mature leafless pseudobulb as the new growths appear and carries a flower that may smell of urine, lemon to vanilla.
Very similar to Lyc aromatica but differs in having rounder lateral lobes of the lip and a much smaller callus which is not longer than the isthmus
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 138. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; The Genus Lycaste Fowlie 1970; Orchid Digest Vol 42 No 6 1978 photo ok; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1228 Dodson 1985 drawing good; Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 drawing good; AOS Bulletin Vol 60 No 3 1991; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen lieferung 29 1777 - 1840 Brieger 1994; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 5 2005 drawing fide; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 drawing ok to the second photo; Orchid Digest Vol 71 #4 2007 photo fide; Lycaste, Ida and Anguloa The Essential Guide Oakley 2008; Of Men & Orchids Part 1 Jenny 2015 drawing/photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 80 #2 2016; Orchid Digest Vol 83 #2 2019 photo fide; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide
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