Prosthechea villae-rosae P.Ortiz 2009
TYPE Photo by Luis Eduardo Alvarez/TYPE Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz and The Epidendra Website
Common Name The Villa Rosa Prosthechea [A town in Cundinamarca Colombia]
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Cundinamarca department of Colombia at elevations around 2800 meters as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte with an ascending, thick rhizopme giving rise to distant, elongate pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, oblong-elliptic, acute apically leaves that blooms on a terminal, erect, 1" [2.5 cm] long few flowered inflorescence carrying non-resupinate flowers.
Distinguished by the narrow, acute tepals and broad, apiculate lip callus. Similar to Prosthechea pedro-ortiziana but it has a sessile lip with the callus somewhat sulcate on the dorsal surface with a truncate apex." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Orquideologia Vol 26 #1 pg 15 Ortiz 2009 drawing/photo fide
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:394 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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