Prosthechea pedro-ortiziana Szlachectko & Kolanowska 2023

TYPE Drawing by © A Krol 2023

EARLY

Common Name Padre Pedro Ortiz's Prosthechea [Colombian Jesuit monk, Orchid Botanist, Taxonomist and friend 1926 - 2012]

Flower Size

Found in Antioquia and Cundinamarca departments of Colombia in wet montane forests at elevations around 2800 meters as a medium sized, cold growing epiphyte with cylindrical, elongate pseduobulbs carrying 2, apical, erect, oblong-elliptic, acute, leaves that blooms in the summer and early fall on a terminal, 12 [30 cm] long, arising through a complanate, acute 3.2" [8 cm] long spathe, laxly to 15 flowered inflorescence with small, triangular, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.

"Similar to P villae-rosae but differs most in the sessile lip, a callus somewhat sulcate on the dorsal surface and a truncate apex and prominent rhombic to obliquely elliptic, obtuse lateral lobes. P villae rosae has a clawed lip with a apiculate callus tenuously sulcate in the middle and the lateral lobes of the lip are obscure, obliquely traingular and acute." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:393 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide

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