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Orchid Species: Stanhopea ecornuta
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Stanhopea ecornuta is an orchid species identified by Lem. in 1846.
ORIGIN: Found in Guatemala, Honduras Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama in shady, lowland tropical evergreen forests often over flowing water as a medium sized, hot growing epiphyte at elevations of sea-level to 300 meters.
DESCRIPTION: A medium sized, hot growing epiphyte at elevations of sea-level to 300 meters with ovoid, sulcate, slightly compressed pseudobulbs that have basal bracts and carrying a single apical, ribbed, plicate, narrows below into the elongate petiolate base, elliptic, abruptly acute leaf that blooms on a lateral and then pendant, 1 1/2 [4 cm] long, few [2] flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb, concealed by ovoid, inflated, imbricating, scarious, lepidote sheaths giving rise to 2 to rarely 3, large, fragrant, showy, membraneous flowers occurring in the summer.
FLOWER SIZE: 2 inches [5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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