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Schomburgkia weberbaueriana is an orchid species identified by Kraenzl. in 1906. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Laelia weberbaueriana.
ORIGIN: Found as a large sized, hot to warm growing lithophyte in Peru and Bolivia in wet montane forests on branches exposed to high sunlight at elevations around 200 to 1300 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Found as a large sized, hot to warm growing lithophyte in Peru and Bolivia in wet montane forests on branches exposed to high sunlight at elevations around 200 to 1300 meters with a fusiform, complanate, ridged pseudobulb with a series of basal, scarious, imbricate, bracts and 2, oblong-ligulate, attenuate to the conduplicate base, subacute, coriaceous leaves tha blooms on a terminal, [80 cm] long, densely several to many flowered inflorescence with narrowly lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts that are longer than the ovaries with the flowers in a apical umbel held well above the leaves and occurring in late spring.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 inch [2.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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