Anacheilium radiatum (Lindl.) Pabst, Moutinho & A.V. Pinto 1981 Mexico Type Photo courtesy of Diederick Antoni

Belize TypePhotos courtesy of Jay Pfahl

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Common Name The Lined Petal Anacheilium

Flower Size to around 1" [to 2.5 cm]

Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and Belize to Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Venezuela? in varied type forests which include tropial evergreen, mixed pine and oak at an altitude of 150-2000 meters with ellipsoid to elliptic-ovoid, slightly compressed, grooved pseudobulbs partially enveloped basally by a few scarious sheaths carrying 2 to 4, towards the apex, lanceolate-elliptic, obtuse or broadly acute leaves. This medium sized, warm to cool growing species does well mounted on wood or tree fern, or in a wire basket with wood chips. It is a very fragrant species that blooms in the fall, winter and spring on an apical, short to 4" [10 cm], few to many [4 to 12] flowered inflorescence with non-resupinate, fragrant [sometimes not so good], heavy textured, cockleshell flowers and is easy to grow.

Synonyms Encyclia radiata [Lindley]Dressler 1961 ; Epidendrum marginatum Lk., Kl. & Otto 1841 Not L.C.Rich; *Epidendrum radiatum Lindley 1841; Prosthechea radiata (Lindl.) W. E. Higgins 1997

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1992 as Encyclia radiata; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Epidendrum radiatum; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb, Laurent 1992 as Encyclia radiata; The Cattleyas and Their Relatives, the Debateable Epidendrum Withner and Harding 2004; The Genus Encyclia in Mexico Dressler & Pollard 1976 as Encyclia radiata; A Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993 as Encyclia radiata; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Hamer 1974 as Encyclia radiata; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 696 Hamer 1982 as Encyclia radiata; Orchids of Guatemala and Belize Ames and Corell 1985 as Epidendrum radiata; Flora's Orchdis Nash & La Croix as Protheschea radiata; Botanica's Orchids Laurel Glenn 2002 as Protheschea radiata

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