Sudamerlycaste reichenbachii (Gireoud ex Rchb.f.) Archila 2002 SECTION Cobbianae
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Common Name Reichenbach's Sudamerlycaste [German Orchidologist 1800's]
Flower Size 1.4 to 2.4" [3.4 to 6 cm]
A wet montane forest terrestrial from Peru that is found at elevations around 1600 meters as a medium to large sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with caespitose, narrowly elliptic, angled, pseudobulbs carrying, 2 apical, erect, plicate, narrowly oblong-lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, channeled, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on an basal, erect, 6" [1`5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with 3, acuminate, acute, loose, bracts.with nocturnally fragrant flowers of marine algae.
Synonyms Ida reichenbachii (Gireoud ex Rchb. f.) A. Ryan & Oakeley 2003; Ida reichenbachii var. alba Oakeley 2003; Ida reichenbachii var. aurantiaca Oakeley 2003; Ida reichenbachii var. viridis Oakeley 2003; Lycaste mesochlaena Rchb.f. & Warsz. 1854; Lycaste mezae D.E.Benn. & Oakeley 1994; *Lycaste reichenbachii Gireoud ex Rchb. f. 1856; Sudamerlycaste mesochlaena (Rchb.f. & Warsz.) Archila 2002; Sudamerlycaste mezae (D.E.Benn. & Oakeley) D.E.Benn. & Oakeley ex Archila 2002;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1856 as Lycaste reichenbachii; Orchid Digest Vol 45 No 5 1981 photo fide as Lycaste reichenbachiana; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 0094 Dodson & Bennett 1989 as Lycaste reichenbachii drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 60 No 4 1991 as Lycaste mesochlaena; Orchid Digest Vol 58 No 1 1994 as Lycaste reichenbachia photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen lieferung 29 1777 - 1840 Brieger 1994 as Lycaste reichenbachii; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen lieferung 29 1777 - 1840 Brieger 1994 Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 493 Bennett & Christenson 1998 as Lycaste mezae drawaing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 44-45 pg 2763 - 2898 Brieger 2001 as Ida mesochlaena; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 44-45 pg 2763 - 2898 Brieger 2001 as Ida reichenbachiana; Lycaste, Ida and Anguloa, The Essential Guide Oakley 2008; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Las Orquideas del Peru Bezverhov 2011 as Lycaste reichenbachii photo fide; Orchids A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 as Ida reichenbachiana var aurantiacaphoto fide;
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