Lycaste puntarenasensis (Fowlie) Archila 2002 SECTION Lycaste
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Common Name The Punta Arena Lycaste
Flower Size
Found in Costa Rica and Panama at elevations around 1000 meters as a warm to cool growing epiphyte that blooms in the fall and ios the only L macrophyllum group orchid that is wholly deciduous in the dry season whicvh runs from December through April.
Part of the L macrophylla complex consisting of L dowiana, L fuscina, L guatemalensis, L leucantha, L macrophylla, L measuresiana, Lycaste occulta, L panamensis, L puntarenasensis,=" L x sanderae, L viridescens, L xanthocheila, L xytriophora,
Synonyms Lycaste macrophylla subsp. desboisiana (Cogn.) Fowlie 1964; *Lycaste macrophylla subsp. puntarenasensis Fowlie 1964; Lycaste macrophylla var. desboisiana Cogn. 1897
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lasca Leaves 14(1): 45, f. Fowlie 1964 as L macrophyllum ssp puntarenasensis drawing fide; Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 as L macrophylla var deboisiana drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen lieferung 29 1777 - 1840 Brieger 1994 as L macrophylla ssp desboisiana; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen lieferung 29 1777 - 1840 Brieger 1994 as L macrophylla ssp puntarenasensis; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 44-45 pg 2763 - 2898 Brieger 2001; *Revista Guatemal. 5(2): s.p. Archilla 2002; Orchid Digest Vol 71 #4 2007 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #6 2011 pollinia only photo fide; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide
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