Schomburgkia lyonsii Lindl. 1853 SUBGENUS Schomburgkia
Photo courtesy of Jean Finalle
Photos courtesy of Danny Lentz ©, plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden
Drawing by ©, Fawcett & Rendle
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Common Name or Meaning Lyon's Schomburgkia [English Orchid Enthusiast 1800's and original cultivator of species]
Flower Size 1.2" to 2" [3 to 5 cm]
Found in Cuba and Jamaica at elevations of sealevel to 800 meters in forest of drier upland valleys with southern exposures on rocks or in trees in exposed locations as a large sized, hot to warm growing lithophyte with tapering cylindrical-elongate pseudobulbs carrying 2 apical, erect, linear leaves that blooms in the later summer through fall on a 60" [1.5 meter] long, 10 to 25 flowered racemose inflorescence and carrying rather waxy, fragrant, long-lasting flowers
Synonyms Bletia lyonsii [Lindl.] Rchb.f 1861; Laelia lyonsii [Lindl.] Williams 1941; Scomburgkia carinata Greisbach 1864; Schomburgkia lyonsii f. immaculata (H.G.Jones) Christenson 2007; Schomburgkia lyonsii var. immaculata H.G.Jones 1972
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Gard. Chron. 1853: 615 Lindley 1853
Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 418 Rchb.f 1862 as Bletia lyonsii
Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 47 Rchb.f 1862 as Bletia lyonsii;
Fl. Brit. W. I.: 621 Griseb. 1864 as Bletia carinata;
Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909;
Flora of Jamaica pl 19 Fawcett & Rendle 1910
Flora of Jamaica Fawcett & Rendle 1910 drawing fide;
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915;
Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing ok; Darwiniana 5: 76 L O Williams 1941 as Laelia lyonsii;
AOS Bulletin Vol 26 #5 1957 as S lyonsii var alba photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 9 1958 as Laelia lyonsii drawing ok;
AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 1 1963 photo fide;
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Laelia lyonsii;
Norweg. J. Bot. 19: 108 H G Jones 1972 as Schomburgkia lyonsii var. immaculata
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 10 576 - 632 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977 photo fide;
Cattleyas and Their Relatives Withner Vol 3 1990 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 5 2006 drawing fide; Richardiana 7: 78 Christenson 2007 as Schomburgkia lyonsii f. immaculata
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