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Orchid Species: Macradenia surinamensis

Kew currently accepted name is Macradenia lutescens

Macradenia surinamensis is an orchid species identified by Rchb.f. & Wullschl. in W.G.Walpers in 1863. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Macradenia lutescens.
Genus
Macradenia (Mcdn.)
Grex
surinamensis
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Author
Rchb.f. & Wullschl. in W.G.Walpers
Year
1863
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ORIGIN: Found in Florida, Bahamas, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, French Guiana Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil at elevations of 220 to 450 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte in wet montane forests and tropical rainforests with elongate, subterete, slightly sulcate pseudobulbs subtended by whitish sheaths with a single apical, thin, rigid, carinate, elliptic-lanceolate leaf that blooms on a basal, pendulous, to 6 3/4 [127 cm] long, racemose, many flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb in the summer and early fall.

FLOWER SIZE: 7/9 inches [1.75 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Macradenia Mcdn lutescens 1822 R.Br.
Add+ Macradenia Mcdn triandra 1836 Lindl.
Add+ Rhynchadenia Rhynchadenia cubensis 1850 A.Rich. in R.de la Sagra
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Mcdn. lutescens 'A-doribil' (2 awards from 2010 to 2011) Mcdn. lutescens 'Fuchs' (1984)
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