Polycycnis escobariana G.Gerlach 2001
plant and Inflorescence TYPE Photos by Guenther Gerlach
Lip Detail Photos by Hans Gerhardt Seeger and his München-Nymphenburg Botanical Garden Orchid Website
Common Name Escobar's Polycycnis [Colombian Orchid Enthusiast current]
Flower Size
Found in Putumayo department of Colombia on the Amazon slope fo the Andes at elevations of 1200 to 1300 meters as a medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with clsoe set, ovoid pseudobulbs carrying a single, plicate, narrrowly elliptical, long petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, rigid, pubescent, to 16" [40 cm] long, to 25 flowered inflorescence
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideologia Vol 22 #1 2001 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 22 #2 2002 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 44-45 pg 2763 - 2898 Brieger 2001; Orquideologia Vol 24 #1 2005 photo good;
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