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Orchid Species: Prosthechea mulasii
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Prosthechea mulasii is an orchid species identified by Soto Arenas & L.Cerv. in 2003.
ORIGIN: Found in Guerrero, Jalisco and Mexico states of Mexico in montane rainforests, cloud scrub forests and Barranca forests at elevations of 1800 to 2200 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to just medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte or lithophyte with ovoid, laterally compressed, smooth pseudobulbs carrying 1 to 2, narrowly oblong-elliptic, rounded and oblique and slightly retuse apically, basally conduplicate leaves that blooms in the later summer on a terminal, arising through a conduplicate, tubular, subacute spathe, peduncle laterally compressed, 3.6 to 6.4 [9 to 16 cm] long, rachis 2.2 to 5.6 [5.5 to 14 cm] long, racemose, 4.8 to 11.2 [12 to 28 cm] long, 4 to 8 flowered inflorescence with triangular, acute-acuminate bracts and triangular, acute to acuminate, mucronate floral bracts and carrying intensely fragrant flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.64 to 1.08 inches [1.6 to 2.6 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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