Stanhopea esteponae Archila & Chiron 2020 SUBGENUS Stanhopea SECTION Wardii
Photo/drawing by © Fredy Archila
Common Name The Estepona Stanhopea [Dedicated to the Orchidarium Estepona, Malaga Spain for the work to conserve Orchids]
Flower Size 4.4" [11 cm]
Found in Guatemala in low montane,cloud forests at elevations around 1800 to 1900 meters as a medium sized, cool growing, densely caespitose epiphyte with pyriform, sulcate pseudobulbs carrying elliptic, acute, 4 nerved, plicate, acute, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer on a pendent, to 7 flowered inflorescence.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Richardiana N.S. 4: 163 Archila and Chiron 2020 photo fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018
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