Prosthechea megahybos (Schltr.) Dodson & Hágsater 1999
Photo by © Alexander Hirtz
Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter
Common Name The Extremely Humpy Prosthechea
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia in wet montane forests at elevations around 900 to 1200 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to close set, narrowly cylindrical pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, erect-patent, ligulate, acute, acuminate leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on a terminal, erect, 10" [25 cm] long, 6 to 10 flowered, racemose inforescence with lanceolate, acuminate less than half as long as the ovary floral bracts
Easy to recognize by its lip form which is long clawad and apically distinctly trilobed.
Synonyms Encyclia hoehnei (A.D.Hawkes) Pabst 1975; Encyclia megahybos (Schltr.) P.Ortiz 1991; Encyclia squamata Porto & Brade 1935; Epidendrum hoehnei A.D.Hawkes 1957; *Epidendrum megahybos Schltr 1921; Epidendrum squamatum Barb.Rodr. 1881; Prosthechea hoehnei (A.D.Hawkes) W.E.Higgins 1997 publ. 1998; Prosthechea squamata (Porto & Brade) Withner 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Gen. Spec. Orchid. 2: 134 Barb Rodr. 1881 as Epidendrum squamatum nom. illeg.;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 8: 75 Ecuador Schlechter 1921 as Epidendrum megahybos;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. Figuren-Atlas 57: 347 Schlechter 1929 as Epidendrum megahybos drawing fide;
Rodriguésia 1(2): 29 Porto & Brade 1935 as Encyclia squamata; Orquídea (Rio de Janeiro) 18: 176 A D Hawkes 1957 as Epidendrum hoehnei;
Bradea 2: 21 Pabst 1975 as Encyclia hoehnei;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 457 Dodson 1989 as Encyclia squamata drawing fide;
Orquideologia Vol 18 #1 1991 as Encyclia megahybos;
Phytologia 82: 378 W E Higgins 1997 publ. 1998 as Prosthechea haehnei;
*Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75: 956 Dodson & Hagsater 1999;
Orchid Digest Vol 65 #2 2001 as Prosthechea squamata drawing fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 65 #2 2001 as Syn of P christyana;
Orchid Digest Vol 65 #2 2001 as P squamata drawing fide;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 as Prosthechea squamata drawing/photo fide;
Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol 7 Withner & Harding 2004 as a syn of E christyanum;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:384 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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