Myrmecophila exaltata (Kraenzl.) G.C. Kenn. 1979 SUBGENUS Chaunoschomburgkia
Photo by Lourens Grobler
Photo by Tennis Maynard
Photo by Sandy Greeman
Common Name The Long-Stalked Myrmecophila
Flower Size 1.65" [4.2 cm]
Found in southern Mexico and northern Guatemala on the Caribbean side in lower montane forests and scrub as a large to giant sized, hot growing epiphyte with thickly cylindrical, strongly ribbed, short pseudobulbs carrying 3 apical, rigid leaves and blooms in the spring and early summer on a terminal, 7' [2.25 meters] long, many [to 80] flowered, paniculate inflorescence with many dark purple flowers.
Synonyms Schomburgkia exaltata Kraenzl. 1926; Schomburgkia tibicinis var. exaltata (Kraenzl.) H.G. Jones 1965
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Mitt. Inst. Allg. Bot. Hamburg 6: 342 Kraenzl. 1926 as Schomburgkia exaltata;
Adansonia, n.s., 5: 45 H G Jones 1965 as Schomburgkia tibicinis var exaltata;
*Orchid Digest 43: 211 G C Kenn. 1979
Cattleyas and Their Relatives Withner Vol 3 1990 as Schomburgkia exaltata photo fide;
Guatemala Y Sus Orquideas Behar & Tinschert 1998 as Schomburgkia exaltata photo fide;
Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001 as Schomburgkia exaltata;
AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #7 2010 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 83 #7 2014 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #9 2016 photo fide;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018
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