Lycomormium ecuadorense Sweet 1974 Photo by Rudolf Jenny
Another View Photos by Patricia Harding
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Common Name The Ecuadorian Lycomormium
Flower Size 1 1/5" [3 cm]
Found in Colombia and Ecuador in wet montane cloud forests at elevations of 1100 to 2000 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial on steep slopes with large, elliptical, smooth pseudobulbs enveloped basally by a foliaceous sheath, and carrying 2 to 3 apical, plicate, thin, narrowly elliptical, acute, that gradually become conduplicate into a channeled, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late winter and spring on a basal, pendant, 10" [25 cm] long, several [10] flowered, racemose inflorescence enveloped by inflated, imbricating bracts.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 392 Dodson 1980 drawing ok; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 39 pg 2437 - 2500 Brieger 2000 photo not = lycomormium fiskei; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 COS 2002 drawing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 10 2005 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 28 #1 2011 drawing/photo fide;
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