Prosthechea fortunae (Dressler) W.E.Higgins 1997 publ. 1998

Photo by Dressler and The Epidendra Website

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Fortuna Dam Prosthechea [A Dam in Panama]

Flower Size .5" [1.25 cm]

Found in Chiriqui province of Panama at elevations of 1000 to 1400 meters as a miniature sized, cool, pendent growing epiphyte with the plant entirely whitish-glaceous with clustered, ovate to suborbicular, strongly flattened pseudoubulbs carrying one to two, glaucous, elliptic to lanceolate elliptic, acute leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a terminal, erect, 2.8 to 4" [7 to 10 cm] long, 6 to 8 flowered inflorescence with narrowly triangular, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying resupinate flowers.

"Characterized by the small, resupinate flowers with an apically trilobedd lip ornamented with 3 thick ridges running to the fleshy, massive callus cradled by the lateral lobes." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023

Synonyms *Encyclia fortunae Dressler 1980

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Phytologia 82: 377 W E Higgins 1997 publ. 1998

Orquídea (Mexico City). 7(4): Dressler 1980 as Encyclia fortunae photo/drawing fide;

*Orchid Digest Vol 65 #2 2001;

The Cattleyas and Their Relatives, the Debateable Epidendrum Withner and Harding 2004;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:377 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide

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