Schomburgkia moyobambae Schltr. 1921 SUBGENUS Schomburgkia
Photos by Jay Pfahl
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Common Name Moyobamba Schomburgkia [An Area In North Peru]
Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]
Found in Bolivia and Peru in tropical rainforest as a large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with fusiform, longitudinally grooved with age pseudobulbs carrying 2 apical, linear-ligulate leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on an erect, 36" [78 cm] long, racemose inflorescence with rose colored, elongate, thin, acuminate floral bracts, a white ovary and an apical cluster of many [20 to 25] flowers.
Synonyms Laelia moyobambae (Schltr.) C.Schweinf. 1944; Schomburgkia marginata var. moyobambae (Schltr.) H.G.Jones 1968
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten IV Peru Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 9: 97 Schlechter 1921;
* Bot. Mus. Leafl. 11: 180 C Schweinfurth 1944 as Laelia moyobambae
AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 1 1963;
Orchid Rev. 71: 51 H G Jones 1963 as S undulata var marginata
*Lloydia 31: 269 H G Jones 1968 as S marginata var moyobambae
Cattleyas and Their Relatives Withner Vol 3 1990 photo fide;
Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001;
Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo not as Laelia moyobambe =S weberbaueriana;
Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 as Laelia weberbaueriana photo fide;
Orquideas del Peru Freuler 2010 as Laelia moyombambae photo fide
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