Stanhopea inodora Lodd. ex Lindl. 1845 SUBGENUS Stanhopea SECTION Wardii
Photo by © Andy Phillips and Andy's Orchids Website
Photo by © Eric Hunt
Photo by © Jay Pfahl
to 
and
Common Name The Odorless Stanhopea [A Misnomer as it does smell]
Flower Size 4 3/4" [12 cm]
Found in Mexico, Belize and Nicaragua in wet montane forests on trees at elevations of 800 to 1500 meters as a medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte or occasional terrestrial along roads on steep banks with ribbed, sulcate pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several dry sheaths and carrying a single, apical, plicate, elliptic-lanceolate, gradually narrows below into the elongate, petiolate base leaf and blooms on a pendulous, several to many [to 10] flowered inflorescence occuring in the spring and summer with showy, fragrant flowers.
Many sources place this taxon within S ruckeri but I have left them separate for now.
SynonymsStanhopea ruckeri var.speciosa Lemaire 1854
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854; Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1870 drawing; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; AOS Bulletin Vol 47 No 9 1978 photo fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1183 Dodson 1984 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 37/38 pg 2309 - 2436 Brieger 1999; Oasis Vol 1 No 4 2000; AOS Bulletin Vol 71 No 12 2002 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 7 2003 photo fide;
Stanhopea inodora Rchb.f. var alba 1870
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orquídea (Mexico City), n.s., 11 1988 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 7 2003 photo fide; Caesiana 21 Stanhopea Part 1 Jenny 2003 photo/drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 70 #3 2006 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #3 2016 drawing fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
