Anacheilium garcianum [Garay & Dunsterville] Withner & Harding 2004
Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website
Drawing By © Dunsterville and Garay
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Common Name Garcia's Anacheilium [Venezuelan Orchid Enthusiast 20th cen]
Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]
Found in Venezuela at elevations around 1200 to 1300 meters in cloud forests as a sympodial, miniature sized, warm to cool, repent growing epiphyte with separated, ovoid, tapering at both ends pseudobulbs subtended by a couple of scarious sheaths carrying a single, apical, lanceolate, minutely bidentate leaf that is basally conduplicate to the apex of the pseudobulb and blooms in the fall in Venezuela on a terminal, 1.6" [to 4 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb and holding the flower at mid-leaf.
The Flower is non-resupinate, extremely long lasting (6 to 8 weeks for a flower) and very fragrant if exposed to sunlight.
Recognized by th single flowered inflorescence with a non-resupinate fragrant flower.
Synonyms Encyclia garciana (Garay & Dunst.) Carnevali & I. Ramírez 1986; Epidendrum garcianum Garay & Dunst. 1961; Prosthechea garciana [Garay & Dunst.] Higgins 1997
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Venezuelan Orchids Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961 as Epidendrum garcianum drawing fide;
Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970 as Epidendrum garcianum drawing fide;
Ernstia 36: 9 Carnevali & I.Ramírez 1986 as Encyclia garciana
*The Cattleyas and Their Relatives, the Debatable Epidendrum Withner and Harding 2004 photo fide;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Dunsterville and Garay 1979 as Epidendrum garcianum drawing fide;
Venezuelan Orchids Dunsterville 1987 as Epidendrum garcianum photo fide;
Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 as Encyclia garciana photo fide;
Phytologia 82: 378 W E Higgins 1997 publ. 1998 as Prosthechea grciana;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 as Prosthechea garciana drawing fide;
Botanica's Orchids Laurel Glenn 2002 as Protheschea garciana; *Cattleyas & Relatives: Debatable Epidendrums: 84 Withner & P.A.Harding2004;
AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 5 2005 as Protheschea garciana;
Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 as Protheschea garciana photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #12 2016 as Prosthechea garciana photo fide;
LANKESTERIANA 20(1):II 2020 as Prosthechea garciana photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:399 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing/photo fide;
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