Prosthechea pulchra Dodson & W.E.Higgins 2001
Photo by © Saul Altamirano A. and The Parque Nacional Carrasco, Cochabamba Bolivia, Orquideas del Proyecto Hidroelectrico Ivirizu Website
Photo by © Alexander Hirtz
Drawing by © Dodson & Bennett
LATE 
Common Name The Beautiful Prosthechea
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Zamora-Chinchipe provinc eof southern Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia in wet montane forests at elevations around 2600 meters as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte with oblong, somewhat flattened, sulcate pseduobulbs carrying 1 to 2, apical, erect, oblong-lanceolate, acute, conduplicate basally leaves that blooms in the late fall and winter on a terminal, shorter than the leaf to 2" [5 cm] long, 9 to 12 flowered inflorescence arising through a conduplicate spathe with 1 to 2 short bracts and small, triangular, acute, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
"Similar to P hartwegii but differs most in the showy brilliant colors of the flowers and the obliquely obovate, lateral lobes of the lip vs in P hartwegii the lateral lobes are suborbicular to rounded-subquadrate and obtuse." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023
Synonyms Anacheilium vinaceum Withner & P.A.Harding 2004; Encyclia pulcherrima Dodson & D.E.Benn. 1989; Prosthechea vinacea Christenson 2003
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Orchids of Peru Plate 0054 Dodson & Bennett 1989 as Encyclia pulcherrima drawing fide;
The Parque Nacional Carrasco, Cochabamba Bolivia, Orquideas del Proyecto Hidroelectrico Ivirizu Website 2021 photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:392 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
