Anacheilium hartwegii (Lindl.) Pabst, Moutinho & A.V. Pinto 1981 Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Another Clone Photo courtesy of Eric Christenson

What has been called E hartwegii Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, Plant grown by Gerardus Staal

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Common Name Hartweg's Anacheilium [German Orchid Collector in Mexico 1800's]

Flower Size 5/8" [1.7 cm]

The first photo is what Eric Christenson has found to be exactly like the type specimen, the second is what we all have thought E hartwegi was.

This small to medium sized, hot to cold growing, epiphytic species is found from Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia in very wet montane forests on moss covered trees at elevations of 1300 to 3100 meters often in full sun with clustered, compressed, conical to ellipsoid pseudobulbs carrying a single [mostly], linear-elliptic, acute leaf and blooms in the spring on an apical, 5 1/2" [14 cm] long, erect, few to several flowered, racemose inflorescence arising on a newly matured pseudobulb with fleshy, non-resupinate flowers.

Synonyms Encyclia hartwegii[Lindl.] R. Vásquez & Dodson 1982; *Epidendrum hartwegii Lindl. 1844; Prosthechea hartwegii (Lindl.) W. E. Higgins 1997

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 as Epidendrum hartwegii drawing good; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970 as Epidendrum hartwegii drawing good; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Dunsterville and Garay 1979 as Epidendrum hartwegii drawing good; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Vasquez & Dodson Plate 527 1982 as Encyclia hartwegii drawing ok; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 as Prosthechea hartwegii drawing good; The Cattleyas and Their Relatives, the Debatable Epidendrum Withner and Harding 2004 photo fide; Orchids of Bolivia Vol 2 Laelinae Vasquez and Ibisch 2004 as Protheschea hartwegii; Native Ecuadorian orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 as Protheschea hartwegii drawing/photo fide; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 as Protheschea hartwegii photo fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide

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