!Anguloa uniflora Ruiz and Pavon 1798
Inflorescence Photos by © Dr Henry Oakley
Another Flower Photo by Jay Pfahl
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Common Name The Single-Flowered Anguloa
Flower Size 4" long [10 cm]
A large sized, robust, cold to warm growing terrestrial species with large, ovoid, lightly compressed, deeply furrowed longitudinally, dark green psuedobulbs carrying 2 to 3 deciduous, plicate, broadly elliptic-lanceolate, petiolate, acute-acuminate leaves found at elevations of 1400 to 2500 meters from Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in wet montane forests in deep shade and in deep leaf mold, with clustered, generally dark green with a satiny surface, longitudinally grooved, pseudobulbs enveloped basally by 3 to 5, smaller, leaflike sheaths and carrying 2, apical, plicate, elliptical, leaves that blooms after the deciduous leaves fall in summer until early fall on an erect, 6 to 10" [15 to 25 cm] long, often 2, inflorescence with 5 to 7 graduated, inflated, large bracts with ovate, acuminate, subinflated floral bracts all arising basally as the new growths appear in the late winter and has a solitary, tulip-like, fleshy, fragrant, long lasting flower held at mid-leaf height. The plant is generally leafless come blooming time so the new growth has the only leaves on the plant.
Synonyms Anguloa mantini hort. 1895; Anguloa uniflora var. treyeranii Rolfe 1891;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1953; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 9 1958 drawing; Encylopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 2 1979 photo; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Dunsterville and Garay 1979; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 0007 Dodson & Bennett 1989; Native Colombian Orchid Vol 1 COS 1990; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Bennet & Christenson 1993; Native Colombian Orchid Vol 5 COS 1994; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 1999; Australian Orchid Review Vol 65 No 4 2000 photo; Flora's Orchids Nash & La Croix 2005; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 10 2008 photo; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide
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