Stanhopea confusa G.Gerlach & Beeche 2004 SUBGENUS Stanhopea SECTION Wardii
Photos by © Kelvin Bush.
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Common Name The Confusing Stanhopea
Flower Size
Found in Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica and Panama at elevations of 600 to 1220 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with ovoid to globose, somewhat sulcate pseudobulbs ebveloped by papery sheths and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, dark green, plicate, elliptic-ovoid, petiolate base leaf tha blooms in the late summer and early fall on a thick, enveloped by various, papery, black spotted sheaths, 5.2" [13 cm] long, to 6 flowered inflorescence carrying chocolate scented flowers.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Lankesteriana Vol 4 #3 217-221 Gerlach & Beeche 2004 drawing/photo fide;
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