Anacheilium crassilabium [Poep. & Endl.] Withner, Harding & Campacci 2004 Vespa Complex Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website
Another Color Form Photos courtesy of Patricia Harding
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Common Name The Thick Lipped Anacheilium
Flower Size 1 1/2" [3.75 cm]
Found in the Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Trinidad & Tobago, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Surinam, French Guyana, and Guyana as a medium sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte, lithophyte or terrestrial in pine-oak forests with clustered, large, bimorphic, ovoid, compressed or long and cylindric pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 4, erect-patent, elliptic-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, subacute, narrowing below into the base leaves that blooms in the spring, summmer and fall on a terminal, 12" [30 cm] long, racemose, few to many [5 to 22] flowered inflorescence arising on a newly matured pseudobulb with non-resupinate, fleshy, rigid, color variable flowers. There is a convoluted history here and much still needs to be determined but much of what was once called Encyclia vespa is now Anacheilium crassilabia and all that is left in the new determination of Anacheilium vespa is the one found in Brazil.
Synonyms Auliza wilsoni Gale' 1938; Aulizeum variegatum [Hkr.] Lindley ex Stein 1892; Encyclia christii (Rchb. f.) Dodson 1994; Encyclia crassilabia (Poepp. & Endl.) Lemee' 1955; Encyclia crassilabia (Poepp. & Endl.) Dressler 1961; Encyclia feddeana (Kraenzl.) ined ?; Encyclia leopardina [Rchb.f] Dod. & Hags. 1994; Encyclia longipes (Rchb. f.) Dodson ?; Encyclia vespa (Vell.) Dressler 1971; Epidendrum baculibulbum Schltr. 1923; Epidendrum christii Rchb. f. 1877; Epidendrum coriaceum H. Focke 1853; Epidendrum coriaceum Parker ex Hkr. 1837; *Epidendrum crassilabium Poepp. & Endl. 1838; Epidendrum feddeanum Kraenzl. 1905; Epidendrum fuertesii Cogn. 1912; Epidendrum longipes Rchb. f. 1878; Epidendrum rhabdobulbon Schltr. 1920; Epidendrum rhopalobulbon Schltr. 1924; Epidendrum saccharatum Kraenzl. 1908; Epidendrum variegatum Hook. 1832; Epidendrum variegatum var. angustipetalum Hoehne 1947 ; Epidendrum variegatum var. coriaceum [Parker ex Hkr.] Lindl. 1853 ; Epidendrum variegatum var. crassilabium (Poepp. & Endl.) Lindl. 1853; Epidendrum variegatum var. leopardianum Lindl. 1853; Epidendrum variegatum var. virens Lindl. 1853; Hormidium baculibulbum (Schltr.) Brieger 1960; Hormidium coriaceum [Parker] Brieger 1960; Hormidium lineatum [Rchb.f] Brieger 1977; Hormidium variegatum [Hkr.] Breiger 1960; Hormidium virens [Lindl.] Brieger 1961; Prosthechea christii (Rchb. f.) Dodson & Hágsater 1999; Prosthechea crassilabia [Poepp. & Endl.] Carnevali & Ramierez 2003; Prosthechea leopardina (Rchb. f.) Dodson & Hágsater 1999; Prosthechea vespa (Vell.) W.E. Higgins 1997; Prosthechea vespa subsp. triandra (Dod) Nir 2000
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR as Prosthechea crassilabia; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as Epidendrum variegatum Hkr.; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as Epidendrum fuertsii; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II Colombia Schlechter 1920 as Epidendrum rhabdobulbon; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 116. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 AS E baculibulbon; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 209. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 AS E baculibulbon; Beitrage Zur Orchideenkunde Von Colombia 27:71 Schlechter 1924 as E rhabdobulbon; Beitrage Zur Orchideenkunde Von Colombia 27:71 Schlechter 1924 as E rhopalobulbon; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 6 1958 as Epidendrum crassilabium; Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960 as Epidendrum crassilabium; AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 5 1961 as Epidendrum crassilabium; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961 as Epidendrum vespa erroneous; AOS Bulletin Vol 31 No 7 1962 photo as Encyclia crassilabia; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970 as Epidendrum vespa; Orchids of Cuba Llamacho & larramendi 2005 as Protheschea vespa; Native Colombian Orchid Vol 1 COS 1990 as Anacheilum vespa; AOS Bulletin Vol 62 No 8 1993 photo as E vespa; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994 as Encyclia vespa; The Cattleyas and Their Relatives, the Debateable Epidendrum Withner and Harding 2004; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 071 Dodson 1980; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 528 Dodson 1982; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 699 Dodson 1982; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 039 Bennett & Christeson 1993; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1429 Hagsater & Salazar 1992; Icones Orchidacearum Brasilienses II Castro 2006 as Protheschea pachysepalaOrquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 as Prosthechea vespa; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide as Prosthechea crassilabia
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