Lycaste bruncana Bogarín 2007 SECTION Lycaste

Photo by © Bogarin, Used under permission of The Lankester's Epidendra Website CR

Common Name The Brunca Lycaste [A region and Indigenous people of Costa Rica]

Flower Size 3.6" [9 cm]

Found in Costa Rica and Panama at elevations around 100 to 400 meters as a medium to just large sized sized, hot growing epiphyte with ovoid, sulcate, ancipitous pseudobulbs with inconspicuous spines after leaf fall and subtended by 2 to 3 leaf bearing sheaths and carrying 2, apical, plicate, 5 veined, obovate, acute to acuminate, petiolate base leaf that blooms on 1 to 6, 3.6" [9 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with 2 to 3 persistent, imbricate, ovate, acute bracts and 1 to several showy flowers open at any one time.

Similar to L tricolor but differs in the spathulate lip, a long-narrow isthmus and a wooly anther.

Synonyms Lycaste crystallina Wubben ex Oakeley 2008

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 44-45 pg 2763 - 2898 Brieger 2001 as L crystallina; Lycaste, Ida, Anguloa: 73 Oakley 2008; *Lankesteriana 7: 543. Bogarin 2007 drawing/photo fide; Lankestriana 11(3): 185-205 Bogarin 2011 Photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #2 2016 drawings fide; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide

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