Stanhopea schilleriana Rchb.f. 1870
SUBGENUS Stanhopea SECTION Saccata
Inflorescence Photos by Kelvin Bush and His Bush Orchids and Stanhopea Website
Common Name Schiller's Stanhopea [German Counsel to Colombia 1800's]
Flower Size 3.6 to 4" [9 to 10 cm]
Found in Antioquia Colombia at elevations around 2200 meters on wet rocks in an unknown location as a medium sized, cold growing lithophyte with ovate, strongly ribbed and furrowed with age pseudobulbs carrying a singel, apical, erect, plicate, coarse, leathery, lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the channeled, petiolate base leaf that blooms on a basal, pendent, to 10" [to 25 cm] long, loosely 6 to 10 flowered inflorescence with large, spread, broadly triangular, acute floral bracts and carrying fragrant flowers
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1870 drawing; Caesiana Vol 22 Stanhopea Part 2 Jenny 2004 drawing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #8 2019 photo fide;
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