Polycycnis barbata (Lindl.) Rchb. f. 1855 SUBGENUS Polycycnis
Photos by David Jubineau
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Common Name The Bearded Polycicnis
Flower Size 2" [4 cm]
Found from Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte at elevations of 160 to 1500 meters with ovoid, sulcate pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, plicate, elliptic-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, suberect, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, petiolate base leaf that blooms on a pendant, basal, to 12" [30 cm] long, pubescent, loosely few to many flowered inflorescence with fragrant, short lived flowers occuring in the spring.
Synonyms *Cycnoches barbatum Lindl. 1849;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR; *Bonplandia (Hannover) 3: 218. 1855; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1856; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942; The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946 drawing good; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 6 1958; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 4 1963 photo fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Flora de Venezuela Volumen XV Part 4 Foldats 1970; Orquideologia Vol 12 No 2/3 1977/78 photo/drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 photo not = P lepida; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 photo fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 errata = P lepida; AOS Bulletin Vol 61 No 7 1992 photo as P gratiosa; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 37/38 pg 2309 - 2436 Brieger 1999 photo fide; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 drawing ok; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawong/photo fide; Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 2 Morales 2009 photo fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 photo fide; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide
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