Lycaste measuresiana (B.S.Williams) Oakeley 2007 SECTION Lycaste
Photo by Daniel Jimenez
Photo by Ron Parsons
Common Name or Meaning Measures' Lycaste [Lycaste afficianado in late 1800's]]
Flower Size to 3.6" [to 9 cm]
Found in Costa Rica and Colombia at elevations of 1100 to 1600 meters as a large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with with pseudobulbs without spines after leaf-fall and carrying 3 to 4, plicate leaves that blooms in the fall in Costa Rica on an erect to lateral, to 12" [to 30 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence.
The largest of the L macrophylla complex which consists of L dowiana, L fuscina, L guatemalensis, L leucantha, L macrophylla, L panamensis, L puntarenasensis, L x sanderae, L viridescens, L xanthocheila and L xytriophora,
Synonyms Lycaste macrophylla subsp. measuresiana (B.S.Williams) Fowlie 1964; *Lycaste plana var. measuresiana B.S.Williams 1888
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953 as L macrophylla var measuresiana; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen lieferung 29 1777 - 1840 Brieger 1994 as L macrophyllum ssp measuriana; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 491 Bennett & Christenson 1998 as L macrophylla subsp measuresiana drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 71 #4 2007 photo fide; Lycaste, Ida and Anguloa The Essential Guide Oakley 2008; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide
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