Schomburgkia crispa Lindley 1838 SUBGENUS Schomburgkia Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista
Photo by Lourens Grobler ©
Drawing by © John Lindley
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Common Name The Curled Schomburgkia
Flower Size 2 to 2.4" [5 to 6 cm]
Found from Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela, Fr Guyana, Guyana, Surinam and northern Brazil at lower elevations as a large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with clavate-fusiform, compressed, angled and sulcate pseudobulbs enveloped in youth by several membraneous, acute sheaths and carrying 2 apical, rigid, coriaceous, erect-patent, apically recurved, oblong, cuneate and lightly concave below into the base leaves that blooms in the summer on a racemose to sub-umbellate, many flowered, 24 to 44" [60 to 110 cm] long, robust, terete inflorescence.
Similar to Schomburgkia gloriosa in floral bracts and flower segment size but the sepals of S crispa are obtuse vs acute in S gloriosa
Synonyms Bletia crispina Rchb. f. 1862; Cattleya crispa Beer 1854;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Sert. Orchid.: t. 10 Lindley 1838 drawing fide;
Prakt. Stud. Orchid.: 209 Beer 1854 as Cattleya crispa
Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 419 1862 as Bletia crispina
Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2: 48 Rchb.f 1862 as Bletia gloriosa;
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 photo good;
Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing fide;
Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 drawing fide;
Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 as S weberbaueri
AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 1 1963;
Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970 drawing hmm;
Die Orchideen Liferung #10 577- 632 tafel 10 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 as S undulata ssp crispa photo fide;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 10 576 - 632 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977 photo ok;
Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as S weberbaueri drawing good;
The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986 photo fide;
Cattleyas and Their Relatives Withner Vol 3 1990 photo ok;
The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 photo fide;
Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 2 2004 photo fide;
Orchids of The Brazilian Central Plateau Menezes 2004 photo fide;
Orquideas de Roirama Luz & Franco 2012 as Schomburgkia sp photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV: 489 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing/photo fide;
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