Anacheilium baculus [Rchb.f] Withner & Harding 2004 Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

Colombia form Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

Common Name The Stake-Like Anacheilium [refers to the pseudobulbs appearance]

Flower Size to 3" [7.5 cm]

This medium sized, hot to cool growing, cockleshell epiphytic species is found in Vera Cruz, Oaxaca and Chiapas states of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica and south to Colombia and Brazil in lower montane forests at altitudes of 400 to 1700 meters with fusiform, slightly compressed pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 3, towards the apex, lanceolate to ligulate-elliptic, obtuse leaves that blooms in the spring and summer and fall with an apical, short to 2 1/2" [6.25 cm], erect, 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence with a prominent basal sheath arising on a newly matured, fusiform, cylindric, bifoliate pseudobulb giving rise to strongly fragrant [honey], inverted flowers.

Synonyms Encyclia baculus (Rchb. f.) Dressler & G.E. Pollard 1971; Encyclia pentotis (Rchb. f.) Dressler 1961; Epidendrum acuminatum Sessé & Moc. 1798; *Epidendrum baculus Rchb. f. 1856; Epidendrum beyrodtianum Schltr. 1915; Epidendrum pentotis Rchb. f. 1876; Hormidium baculus [Rchb.f] Breiger 1977; Prosthechea baculus (Rchb. f.) W. E. Higgins 1997

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1856 as Epidendrum baculus; AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 9 1961 as Epidendrum pentotis; Die Orchideen #9 33-36 tafel 9 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 as Hormidium baculus photo fide; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 1 Hamer 1974 as Epidendrum pentotis drawing/photo fide; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 as Epidendrum pentotis drawing fide; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995 as Encyclia baculus; The Genus Encyclia in Mexico Dressler & Pollard 1976 as Encyclia baculus; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 682 Dodson 1982 as Encyclia baculus drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1420 Mora Attwood 1992 as Encyclia baculus drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids vol 5 COS 1994 as Encyclia baculus photo ok; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb, Laurent 1992 as Encyclia baculus; Field Guide to the Orchids Of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993; Orchidaceae Brasilienses Vol 2 Pabst - Dungs 1977 as Epidendrum baculus; *The Cattleyas and Their Relatives; The Debateable Epidendrum Withnewr and Harding 2004 photo fide; Botanica's Orchids Laurel Glenn 2002 as Protheschea baculus; Icones Orchidacearum fascile 10 plate 1063 Hagsater & Soto 2008 as Prosthechea baculus drawing fide

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