!Acineta superba [Kunth] Rchb.f 1862

TYPE for the genus

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Disected Flower Photos by © Gunter Gerlach and His Stanhopinae Website

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Common Name or Meaning The Superb Acineta - in Colombia "Periquito" [parakeet in spanish]

Flower Size 3 1/8" [8 cm]

Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru as a large sized, robust, cool to warm growing, caespitose epiphyte from high in the canopy of wet montane forests at elevations of 800 to 1950 meters with clustered, ovoid to cylindrical, glossy olive green, laterally compressed, finely sulcate pseudobulbs with a basal sheath and carrying 2 to 4, terminal, thick, glabrous, plicate, oblanceolate, acute, petiolate leaves that blooms on a basal, stout, pendant, to 12" [30 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence with fragrant, heavily waxy, color variable flowers arising on a mature pseudobulb as a new growth appears, and occurring in the late winter and spring. Needs to be in mmounted on tree fern or in a hanging basket to accomodate the long pendant inflorescence. Good shade, plenty of water while growing and a short dry rest in the winter will bring about strong spring bloomings.

Synonyms Acineta collosa Sander 1898; Acineta colmani R.H. Torr. 1904; Acineta fulva Kl. 1852; Acineta humboldtii [Lindl.] Lindley 1843; Acineta humboldtii var. schilleriana Rchb.f. 1855; Acineta schilleriana (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f. 1863; Acineta supurba var fulva Schlechter 1917; *Anguloa superba Kunth 1815; Peristeria humboldtii Lindl. 1843; Peristeria humboldtii Lindl. var fulva Hook. 1845

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Nov. Gen. Sp. Pl. (quarto ed.) 1: 343, t. 93. 1815 as Anguloa supurba; Edwards's Bot. Reg. 29: t. 18. 1843 as Peristeria humboldtii; *Edwards's Bot. Reg. 26: Misc. 68. 1843; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854 as Acineta humboldtii; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1855 as A humboldtii; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959; AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 5 1961; AOS Bulletin Vol 33 No 9 1964 photo; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970; AOS Bulletin Vol 47 No 9 1978 photo; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Dunsterville and Garay 1979; AOS Bulletin Vol 68 No 6 1999 photo; Orquedias Nativas de Tachira Fernandez 2003; Native Colombian Orchid Vol 1 COS 1990; Native Ecuadorian Orhcids Vol 1 Dodson; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Encylopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb, Laurent 1992; The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchds Pridgeon 1992; Simon & Schuster's Guide to Orchids Fanfani & Rossi 1988; Icones Orchidarium Peruviarum Bennet & Christensen 1995; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Dodson 1980; Botanica's Orchids Laurel Glenn 2002 AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 1 2003 photo; Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 2 2004 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 5 2004 photo

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