Schomburgkia lueddemannii Prill. 1862 SUBGENUS Schomburgkia
Photo by © Jean Finalle
Drawing by © Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003
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Common Name Lueddeman's Schomburgkia [French Orchid Gardener 1800's]
Flower Size
Found in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Venezuela? at elevations of sea level to 600 meters as a large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with large, somewhat ancipitous, largest towards the apex pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, lanceolate to elliptic, obtuse, coriaceous leaves that blooms on a terminal, long-pedunculate, to 30" [75 cm] long, several to many flowered inflorescence with linear to linear-lanceolate floral bracts.
Synonyms Bletia undulata var costaricana Rchb.f 1865; Laelia lueddemanniana [Prill.] Williams 1940; Schomburgkia undulata var costaricana [Rchb.f] Jones 1963; Schomburgkia undulata var lueddemanniana [Prill.] Jones 1963; Schomburgkia lueddemanniana var costaricana [Rchb.f] Jones 1967
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
J. Soc. Imp. Centr. Hort. 8: 275 Prill. 1862;
Xenia Orchid. 2: 49 Rchb.f 1863 as Bletia undulata var costaricana;
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915;
Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 17: 48. Panama Schlechter 1922;
Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 47. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923;
Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 133. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923;
Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 27: 282 L O Williams 1940 as Laelia lueddemannii;
The Orchids of Panama 383 [315] L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946 as Laelia lueddemannii;
Orchid Rev. 71: 51 Pupulin 1963 as S undulata var luedddemannii; Orchid Rev. 71: 51 H G Jones 1963 as S undulata var costaricana;
AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 1 1963;
Feddes Repert. 76: 195 H G Jones 1967 as S lueddemannii car costaricana; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 10 576 - 632 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977;
Cattleyas and Their Relatives Withner Vol 3 1990 photo fide;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 drawing fide;
Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 1 Morales 2009 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 82 #11 2013 photo fide;
Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 as S lueddemania var costaricana photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV: 490 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide;
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