Prosthechea grammatoglossa [Rchb.f] Higgins 1997
Inflorescence in situ Jardin Colombia 5/14
Plant and Inflorescence in situ Jardin Colombia 5/14
Photo by © Jay Pfahl
Photo by © Eric Hunt.
Photo courtesy of Carlos Hajek and his Peruvian Orchid Page
Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding.
Drawing by Dunsterville & Garay
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Common Name The Marked Lip Prosthechea
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia in wet montane forests at elevations of 750 to 2100 meters as a small sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte or lithophyte on mossy rocks with ovoid-fusiform to oval pseudobulbs enveloped almost completely in youth by several, imbricate, scarious, sheaths carrying 2 apical, linear, acuminate, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on a terminal, erect, 4" [10 cm] long, racemose inflorescence arising on a newly maturing pseudobulb with minute floral bracts and carrying 4 to 12, non-resupinate, star-shaped flowers.
Synonyms Anacheilium grammatoglossum [Rchb.f] Pabst, Moutinho & Pinto 1981; Encyclia grammatoglossa (Rchb. f.) Dressler 1961; *Epidendrum grammatoglossum Rchb. f. 1849; Epidendrum quadridentatum F. Lehm. & Kraenzl.1899
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Linnaea 22: 837 Rchb.f 1850 as Epidendrum grammatoglossum
Bonplandia Rchb.f 1855 as Epidendrum grammatoglossum;
Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1878 as Epidendrum grammatoglossum;
Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 26: 459 F.Lehm. & Kraenzl. 1899 as Epidendrum quadridentatum;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 6: 70 Schlechter 1919 as Epidendrum grammatoglossum;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 247 Schlechter 1920 as Epidendrum grammatoglossum;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 251 Schlechter 1920 as E quadridentatum;
Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 27:135 Colombia Schlechter 1924 as Epidendrum grammatoglossum;
Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 27:169 Colombia Schlechter 1924 as Epidendrum grammatoglossum;
Orchids of Peru Vol 2 Fieldiana Schweinfurth 1959 as Epidendrum grammatoglossum; Brittonia 13: 265 Dressler 1961 as Encyclia grammatoglossa;
Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961 as Epidendrum grammatoglossa drawing fide;
Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970 as Epidendrum grammatoglossa drawing fide;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 9 513 - 576 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977 as Hormidium grammatoglossum;
Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as Epidendrum grammatoglossum drawing fide;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 526 Dodson 1982 drawing fide;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 0053 Dodson & Bennett 1989 as Encyclia grammatoglossa drawing fide;
*Phytologia 82: 378 W E Higgins 1997 publ. 1998;
Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 443 Bennett & Christenson 1998 drawing fide;
Bradea 3: 183 Pabst, Moutinho & A.V.Pinto 1981 as Anacheilium grammatoglossum;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 as Prosthechea grammatoglossa drawing fide;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 drawing/photo fide;
Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo fide
Orchids of Bolivia Vol 2 Laelinae Vasquez and Ibisch 2004 drawing/photo fide;
The Cattleya and Their Relatives Vol 7 The Debateable Epidendrum Withner & Harding 2004 photo fide;
Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide;
Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo fide;
An Illustrated Field Guide to the Orchids of the Yotoco Forest Reserve Colombia Kolanowska, Escobar, Sanchez & Szlachetko 2011 drawing good/photo;
Orchids of the Department of Valle de Cauca Colombia Vol 2 Kolanowska, Hagsater etal 2014 drawing fide;
Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide;
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