Schomburgkia splendida Schltr. 1913

Photo by Lourens Grobler

Another Flower

Photo by Orquideas del Valle Website

Schomburgkia splendida Schltr. 1913 Frma xanthina

Photo by Patricia Harding

Schomburgkia splendida Schltr. 1913 var caucana???

Photo courtesy of Jean Finalle

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Common Name The Splendid Schomburgkia

Flower Size 2.5" to 4" [6.25 to 10 cm]

Found in Valle de Cauca and Nariño departments of Colombia and Ecuador in dry montane forests often in full sun along riverways on trees and rocks around elevations of 600 to 3300 meters as a large sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte or lithophyte with fusiform, slightly flattened, sulcate, 2 to 3 noded pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, thick, coriaceous, ellptic-oblong, rounded leaves and blooms in the summer through winter on a terminal, racemose, to 40" [55 cm] long, densely few to many [8 to 10] flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb with long-lasting, large, pink floral bracts.

"Similar to Schomburgkia lueddemannii but differ in the size of the lip [37 to 50 x 28 to 30 vs 22x 14], and the shape of the lip middle lobe [elliptic to oblong-ovate vs ligulat-ovate to broadly ovate]". Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023

Synonyms Laelia splendida (Schltr.) L.O. Williams 1941

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 12: 212 Schlechter 1913

Beitrage Zur Orchideenkunde Von Colombia Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Beih. Veg. 27:78 Schlechter 1924;

Darwiniana 5: 77 L O Williams 1941 as Laelia splendida;

AOS Bulletin Vol 28 No 6 1959 as Laelia splendida photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 1 1963;

Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 487 Dodson 1982 drawing ok;

Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1159 Dodson 1984;

Cattleyas and Their Relatives Withner Vol 3 1990 photo/drawing fide;

Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992 photo fide;

Phylogeny and Classification of the Orchid Family Dressler 1993 photo fide;

Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001;

Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 2 2004 photo fide;

Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 drawing/photo fide;

Orquideologia Vol 24 #1 2005 photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 11 2008 photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 12 2008 photo fide;

AOS Bulletin vol 78 No 11 2009 photo fide;

Orquideologia Vol 27 #2 2010 photo fide

Orquideologia Vol 29 #1 2012 photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 82 #11 2013 photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 86 # 1 2017 as Laelia splendida photo fide;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV: 491 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing/photo fide;

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