!Physosiphon tubatus [Lodd.]Rchb.f 1861
Photo by Eric Hunt, plant grown by Hanging Gardens
Photo by Patricia Harding
Drawings of P emarginatus by Carl Luer
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Common Name The Tube-Forming Physosiphon
Flower Size to about 3/4" [1 to 2 cm]
Found in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua on oaks in wet or dry forests at elevations of 1800 up to 3500 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphytc species with erect or ascending, clustered, terete pseudobulbs subtended by scarious, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, suberect ot erect, elliptic-oblanceolate, fleshy, obtuse and minutely retuse apically, gradually narrows below into the elongate conduplicate, petiolate base leaf and blooms mostly in the summer on a terminal, arcuate, simple, longer than the leaf, 3 to 14" [7 to 35 cm] long, laxly many [100] flowered inflorescence that has scarious, tubular spathaceous bracts and simultaneously opening flowers.
Mount this species on tree fern or in small pots with tree fern fibre and give a cool moist environment with moderate indirect light and never allow to dry completely.
Synonyms Epidendrum emarginatum Ruiz & Pav. 1798; Humboltia emarginata Pav. ex Lindl. 1830; Physosiphon carinatus Lindley 1838; Physosiphon guatemalensis Rolfe 1891; Physosiphon lindleyi Rolfe 1893; Physosiphon loddigesii Lindley 1838; Physosiphon moorei Rolfe 1896; Physosiphon ochraceus A Rich & Gal. 1845; Physosiphon tacanensis [Solano & Soto Arenas] Archila & Szlach. 2018; Pleurothallis emarginata Lindl. 1830; Pleurothallis tubata [Lodd.]Steud. 1841; Specklinia tubata (Lodd.) Luer 2005; Stelis emarginata (Lindl.) Soto Arenas & Solano 2002 publ. 2003; Stelis tacanensis Solano & Soto Arenas 2002 publ. 2003; *Stelis tubatus Lodd. 1830
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Syst. Veg. Fl. Peruv. Chil.: 247 Ruiz & Pavon 1798 as Epidendrum emarginatum;
Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 6 Pav ex Lindley 1830 as Humboltia emarginatua;
Bot. Cab. 17: t. 1601 G Loddiges 1830 as Stelis tubata;
Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 6 Lindley 1830 as P emarginata
Nursery Cat. (L. Jacob-Makoy & Co.) Jacob Makoy: 11 12 1836 as Physosiphon loddigesii nom. illeg.;
Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 2: 356 Steud. 1841 as Pleurpothallis tubatus;
Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 3, 3: 17 A Rich & Galeotti 1845 as Physosiphon ochreacus;
Edwards's Bot. Reg. 24(Misc.): 72 Lindley 1838 as Physosipon carinatus;
*In W G Walpers Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 188 Rchb.f 1861 as Physospiphon tubatus;
Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1891: 197 Rolfe 1891 as Physosiphon guatemalensis;
Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1893: 61 Rolfe 1893 as Physosiphon lindleyi;
Kew Hand-List Orch., ed. 2: 189 Rolfe 1896 as Physosiphon moorei; nom. nud.
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Physosiphon guatemalensis;
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as P lindleyi;
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as P loddigesii;
AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 7 1958 as P lindleyi drawing fide;
Orchids of Peru Vol 2 Fieldiana Schweinfurth 1959 as Epidendrum emarginatum;
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 drawing ok;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 7 385 - 448 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1975 as P carinatus photo/drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 5 1979;
Orquídea (Mexico City), n.s., 7[3]: 1979 as Pleurothallis tubatus;
Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 as Physosiphon ochraceus drawing/photo hmm;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1075 Dodson 1984 as Physosiphon ochraceus drawing fide;
Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985 as Physosiphon loddigesii;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986 as Pleurothallis tubatus;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986 as Pleurothallis tubatus drawing fide;
An Introdution to the Orchids of Mexico Wiard 1987 photo fide;
The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 photo ok;
Guatemala Y Sus Orquideas Behar & Tinschert 1998 as Pleurothallis tubata photo fide;
Icones Orchidacearum 5-6 Plate 693 Hagsater & Soto 2002 as Stelis tacanensis drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Dryadella and Acronia section Macrophyllae-Fasiculatae Luer 2005 as Specklinia tubata;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIX A Third Century of Stelis In Ecuador Systematics of Apoda-Prorepentia Luer 2007 AS Physosiphon emarginatus drawing fide;
Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 as Stelis tubatus photo good;
Diversity of Pleurothallidinae in Guatemala: An Endangered Orchid Subtribe with High Economic and Horticultural Potentials Edgar Mo Mo, Cetzal, Basu and Vega 2017 as Stelis emarginata photo fide;
Diversity of Pleurothallidinae in Guatemala: An Endangered Orchid Subtribe with High Economic and Horticultural Potentials Edgar Mo Mo, Cetzal, Basu and Vega 2017 as Stelis tacanensis photo fide;
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