Myrmecophila wendlandii (Rchb. f.) G.C. Kenn. 1979 SUBGENUS Chaunoschomburgkia
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Common Name Wendland's Schomburgkia [German Orchid Gardener and collector in Mexico 1800's]
Flower Size 4" [10 cm]
Found in Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica? at 360 to 1100 meters in elevation as a medium sized, hot growing lithophyte in full sun or epiphyte in semi arid countryside with high humidity occuring with cylindrical, curved, hollow, grooved pseudobulbs carrying 2 leathery, oblong-lanceolate leaves that blooms in the winter, spring and summer with a 18" [50 cm] long, several to many [25] flowered, rarely paniculate inflorescence with fragrant, waxy flowers.
This species is often found in conjunction with ants and may benefit from their presence.
Synonyms *Bletia wendlandii Rchb. f. 1862; Laelia wendlandii Rchb. f. 1862; Schomburgkia wendlandii (Rchb. f.) H.G. Jones 1961; Schomburgkia wendlandii (Rchb.f.) Brieger 1960
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 431 Rchb.f 1862 as Laelia wendlandiana;
Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 431 Rchb.f 1862 as Bletia wendlandiana;
Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1862 as Bletia wendlandii;
AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 8:638 1961 as Schomburgkia wendlandii;
AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 1 1963;
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as laelia wendlandii;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 10 576 - 632 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977;
Orquideologia Vol 12 No 2/3 1977/8 photo plant only ;
*Orchid Digest 43: 211 G C Kenn 1979;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1051 Dodson 1984 drawing fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 49 No 3 1985 photo fide;
Cattleyas and Their Relatives Withner Vol 3 1990 photos fide;
Guatemala Y Sus Orquideas Behar & Tinschert 1998 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 8 2004;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018
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