Stanhopea wardii Lodd. ex Lindley 1838 SUBGENUS Stanhopea SECTION Wardii
Photo by © Dick Hartley Foxdale Orchids
Photo by © Jay Pfahl
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Common Name Ward's Stanhopea [English Orchid Enthusiast 1800's]
Flower Size 5" [12.5 cm]
Found from Nicaragua, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Venezuela as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte occuring on trees and on rocks in humid cloud forests from 800 to 2700 meters in altitude, it can fill an entire house with it's pleasing scent. This species has pyriform to ovoid, sulcate psedobulbs with a single, apical, coriaceous, plicate, ribbed, elliptic-obovate, gradually narrows below into the elongate, petiolate base leaf. They bloom in the summer and fall on a pendant, 3 to 10 flowered, 6 to 7 1/4" [15 to 18 cm] long, crowded inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb and last from 2-4 days carrying jasmine, candy to chocolate scented flowers
They must be kept in a wire basket or mounted on a plaque as the inflorescence hangs pendant from below the plant.
Synonyms Stanhopea amoena Klotsch; Stanhopea anfracta Rolfe; Stanhopea aurea Lindley; Stanhopea inodora var. amoena (Klotzsch) Lindley 1852; Stanhopea peruviana Rolfe; Stanhopea wardii var.aurantiaca hort.ex Hennig; Stanhopea wardii Lodd. Ex Lindley var aurea Lindley; Stanhopea wardii var. aureum hort. ex Henshall 1845; Stanhopea wardii var. flavescens Klinge 1899; Stanhopea wardii var.stenoptera Rchb.f. 1858; Stanhopea woodii Lindley 1950
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
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Stanhopea wardii var. aurea Lindl. 1852
A color variation of the previous species.
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