Pseudocentrum macrostachyum Lindl. 1858

Flower detail Photos by © Andreas Kay and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website

Drawing Drawing by © Matis

Common Name The Large Spiked Pseudocentrum

Flower Size

Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in cloud forests as a medium to just large sized, cold growing terrestrial with a stout, erect stem carrying, 3 to 4 basal, herbaceous, ovate-lanceolate, acute, tapering below into the elongate, thin, striate, conduplicate sheathed base leaves that blooms on an erect, 2' [60 cm] long, cylindric, glabrous, densely many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acute to subacuminate, as long or longer than the ovaries floral bracts

CAUTION I have no way of verifying this determination so please use with caution

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide

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