!Panarica prismatocarpa [Rchb.f] Withner & Harding 2004
TYPE for the genus
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Common Name The Prism-Shaped Seedpod Panarica
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in Costa Rica and Chiriqui province of Panama in lower montane cloud forests on larger tree branches at elevations of 2300 to 3300 meters as a large-sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with elongate, conic pseudobulbs partially enveloped basally by a few scarious sheaths and carrying 2 to 3 apical, oblong-elliptic, basally conduplicate and clasping leaves carrying bright, long lasting, fragrant flowers in the spring, summer and fall on an apical, subtended by a papery basal sheath and arising on a newly matured pseudobulb, erect, to 15" [37.5 cm] long, densly to loosely, few to many [6 to 35] flowered inflorescence with much shorter than the pedicel floral bracts and carrying long-lasting waxy, fragrant flowers.
Similar to P neglecta but differs in the epiphytic habit, shorter pseudobulbs, a dense inflorescence, no apical swelling to the ovary, larger fragrant flowers and glabrous sepals on the dorsal side.
Synonyms Encyclia prismatocarpa (Rchb. f.) Dressler 1961; Epidendrum maculatum hort.; *Epidendrum prismatocarpum Rchb. f. 1852; Epidendrum uro-Skinneri hort.; Prosthechea prismatocarpa (Rchb. f.) W.E. Higgins 1997; Pseudencyclia prismatocarpa (Rchb.f.) V.P.Castro & Chiron 2003
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ;
Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 10: 729. Rchb.f 1852 as E prismatocarpum;
Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1863 as Epidendrum prismatocarpum
Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 tab 123 Rchb.f 1863 as Epidendrum prismatocarpum drawing fide;
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Epidendrum prismatocarpum photo ok;
Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 as Epidendrum prismatochilum drawing fide;
Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 17: 38. Panama Schlechter 1922 as Epidendrum prismatocarpum;
The Genus Epidendrum Ames 1936 as Epidendrum prismatocarpum;
The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946 as Epidendrum prismatocarpum;
Ceiba Vol 5 No 1 L O Williams 1956 as Epidendrum prismatocarpum;
AOS Bulletin Vol 26 No 5 1957 as Epidendrum prismatocarpum Drawing fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 24 #9 1960 as Epidendrum prismatocarpum photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 31 No 3 1962 as Epidendrum prismatocarpum photo fide;
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Epidendrum prismatocarpum;
AOS Bulletin Vol 36 #4 1967 as Epidendrum prismatocarpum;
AOS Bulletin Vol 38 No 5 1969 as Epidendrum prismatocarpa photo fide;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 9 513 - 576 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977 as Hormidium prismatocarpum photo fide;
Orquideologia Vol 12 No 3/4 1977/8 as Epidendrum prismatocarpum photo fide;
Orquideologia Vol 12 No 3/4 1977/8 as Epidendrum prismatocarpum forma immaculatum photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 49 No 3 1980 photo fide; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 as Encyclia prismatocarpa photo fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1427 Atwood 1992 drawing fide; Phytologia 82: 380 W E Higgins 1997 publ. 1998 as Prosthechea prismatocarpa; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 Prosthechea prismatocarpa; *The Cattleyas and Their Relatives, the Debateable Epidendrum Withner and Harding 2004 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 2 2005 as Encyclia prismatocarpa photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 5 2005 as Encyclia prismatocarpa photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 6 2006 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 #7 2008 photo fide; Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 1 Morales 2009 as Prosthechea prismatocarpa photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #4 2016 as Prosthechea prismatocarpa photo fide; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 as Prosthechea prismatocarpa photo fide; Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:421 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 photo/drawing fide;
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