Lycaste tricolor (Klotzsch) Rchb. f. 1863 SECTION Lycaste
Photo courtesy of Daniel Jimenez
Photo by Jay Pfahl
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Common Name The Three-Colored Lycaste
Flower Size to about 2 1/2" [to about 6.4 cm]
Found in Costa Rica and Panama as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte at elevations of 600 to 1000 meters in rainforests with high humidity. The plant has ovoid, ribbed pseudobulbs without spines carrying 3 to 4, plicate, petiolate, elliptic-lanceolate leaves that may or may not be present as the tiny white to pink flowers bloom on an erect, several at once, to 5" [to 17.5 cm], single flowered inflorescence with the fragrant, waxy flowers occuring in the spring.
Synonyms Maxillaria tricolor Klotzsch 1852
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 51. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946 drawing ok;Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; The Genus Lycaste Fowlie 1970; Phylogeny and Classification of the Orchid Family Dressler 1993 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen lieferung 29 1777 - 1840 Brieger 1994; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Orchid Digest Vol 71 #4 2007 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 # 7 2007 photo fide; Lycaste, Ida and Anguloa, The Essential Guide Oakley 2008; AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #6 2011 pollinia only photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 78 #4 2014 photo fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 photo fide; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide
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