Anacheilium crassilabium {Poep. & Endl.] Withner, Harding & Campacci 2004

Another Color Form Photo 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, lanceolate leaves that blooms in the spring, summmer and fall on a terminal, 12" [30 cm] long, racemose, few to many [5 to 15] 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 ; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961 as Epidendrum vespa erroneous; 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; 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;