!Schomburgkia fimbriata [Vell] Hoehne 1942 SUBGENUS Schomburgkia
Photo by Jay Pfahl
and EARLY 
Common Name The Fringed Schomburgkia
Flower Size 2 to 2 1/2" [5 to 6.25 cm]
Found in Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam, Colombia and Ecuador as a large sized, hot growing epiphyte with 2 leaves that is at elevations of 200 to 900 meters with clavate, terete below, lightly compressed, grooved above, 4 to 6 noded pseudobulbs carrying 2 or 3, apical, narrowly oblong, obtuse, coriaceous, acinate leaves that blooms in the fall and early winter on a terminal, to more than 4' [120 cm] long, apical, racemose, many [8 to 15] flowered, clustered at the apex of the inflorescence with prominent, deflexed, linear-lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts and has large, showy, waxy, short-lived flowers arising on a mature psuedobulb and is related to Schomburgkia crispa Lindley.
This species and S gloriosa are said to be synomonous but I have left them separate at this time.
Synonyms *Epidendrum fimbriatum Vell. non Hkr. 1827; Schomburgkia amazonica Hoenhe Nomen Nudum ?
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Fl. Flumin. 9: t. 4 Vell. 1831 as Epidendrum fimbriatum; nom. illeg.
*Arq. Bot. Estado São Paulo, n.s., f.m., 2: 142 Hoehne 1942
AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 1 1963 as S amazonica;
Cattleyas and Their Relatives Withner Vol 3 1990 photo fide;
Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001;
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