Prosthechea ochracea [Lindl.] Higgins 1997
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Photo by © Patricia Harding
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Common Name The Ochre Yellow Prosthechea
Flower Size .5 to .8" [1.25 to 2 cm]
Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama that occurs at elevations of 500 to 3500 meters as a medium sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with loosely clustered, narrowly ovoid to fusiform-ovoid pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 3 towards the apex, narrowly ligulate-elliptic to ligulate-lanceolate, acute or narrowly obtuse leaves that blooms mostly in the spring and summer but possible at any time of the year, on an apical, to 12" [6 to 30 cm] long, simple, pendulous to arching, densly many [6 to 12] flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb that is shorter or just as long as the leaves and has non-resupinate, successive opening, fleshy, cup shaped flowers.
This species can be distinguished from P guttata by not having a warty-echinate surface on the flowers.
Synonyms Encyclia ochracea (Lindl.) Dressler 1961 ; *Epidendrum ochraceum Lindl. 1838; Epidendrum parviflorum Sessé & Moc. 1894; Epidendrum triste A. Rich. & Gal. 1845
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Lankester's Epidendra Website CR;
Edwards's Bot. Reg. 24(Misc.): 14 Lindley 1838 as Epidendrum ochraceum;
Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 3, 3: 20 A Rich & Galeotti 1845 as Epidendrum triste nom. illeg.;
Refugium Botanicum Tab 88 Reichenbach 1869 as Epidendrum ochreaceum drawing fide;
Fl. Mexic., ed. 2: 206 Sesse & Moc. 1894 as Epidendrumm parviflorum; nom. illeg.
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Epdiendrum ochraceum;
Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 122. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as Epidendrum ochraceum;
Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 215. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as Epidendrum ochraceum;
Ceiba Vol 5 No 1 L O Williams 1956 as Epidendrum ovchraceum;
Brittonia 13: 265 Dressler 1961 as Encyclia ochracea; ;
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Epidendrum ochraceum;
Die Orchideen #9 33-36 tafel 9 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 as Hormidium ochracea drawing fide;
Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 1 Hamer 1974 as Epidendrum ochraceum drawing/photo fide;
Orquídea (Mexico City), n.s., 7[3]: 1979 as Encyclia ochracea;
Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 as Epidendrum ochraceum drawing fide;
Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 as Encyclia ochracea drawing fide;
Manual Of Orchids Stewart 1995 as Encyclia ochracea;
Phytologia 82: 379 W E Higgins 1997 publ. 1998
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;
The Cattleya and Their Relatives Vol 7 The Debateable Epidendrum Withner & Harding 2004 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 9 2008 photo fide;
Guia de Orquideas de Chiapas Carlos Rommel Beutelspacher Baigts 2013 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #8 2016 photo ok;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018;
Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide
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