Stanhopea ruckeri Lindl. 1843 SUBGENUS Stanhopea SECTION Wardii
Photo courtesy of Dick Hartley Foxdale Orchids
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Common Name Rucker's Stanhopea [English Orchid Enthusiast 1800's]
Flower Size 3 1/4" [8 cm]
Found from Puebla, Oaxaca, Veracruz and Chiapas states of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua in wet montane forests as a fragrant, medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with ovoid, ribbed, dark green pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several dry sheaths and carrying a single, apical, ribbed, plicate, elliptic, gradually narrows below into the elongate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a pendant, racemose, several [4 to 7] flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb that is subtended by large chartaceous bracts.
Synonyms Stanhopea x ruckeri Ldl. 1963
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 2 1963 photo/drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1185 Dodson 1984 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 37/38 pg 2309 - 2436 Brieger 1999; Oasis Vol 1 No 3 2000 photo; Orchid Australia Vol 12 No 4 2000 photo; Caesiana Vol 22 Stanhopea Part 2 Jenny 2004 drawing/photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum fascile 10 plate 1094 Hagsater & Soto 2008 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 81 #9 2012 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #8 2017 photo fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 photo fide; LANKESTERIANA 19(2).125 - 193 Ossenbach & Jenny 2019 drawing fide
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