Stanhopea stevensonii (Mejia & Escobar) Jenny 1994 SUBGENUS Stanhopea SECTION Wardii
Flower Closeup Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website
Photo courtesy of Rod Rice and Oasis the Journal
Common Name Stevenson's Stanhopea
Flower Size 4.8 to 5.6" [12 to 14 cm]
Found in Meta Colombia as a small to medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with ribbed and furrowed with age pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, coarse, leathery, plicate, lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the channelled petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a basal, pendant, to 8" [to 20 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence with large, spread, broadly triangualr, acute floral bracts and carrying up to 15 fragrant [mothballs] flowers.
Synonyms Stanhopea bolivarensis Mejia & Escobar 1972
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Colombian Orchids VOl 6 COS 1998 photo ok; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 37/38 pg 2309 - 2436 Brieger 1999 photo fide; Caesiana Vol 22 Stanhopea Part 2 Jenny 2004 drawing/photo fide;
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