
Anguloa virginalis Linden 1851
Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding
Plant and Flowers in situ in Ecuador Photos courtesy of Eric Hunt
Common Name The Virginal Anguloa
Flower Size 1 2/5" [3.5 cm]
Found in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia as a large sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial in deep shade on steep humid hillsides, in wet montane forests at elevations of 1250 to 2400 meters with ovoid to oblong-ovoid, lightly compressed pseudobulbs with 2 pairs of basal sheaths that have apical, evanescent, soon scarious, foliaceous extensions and have 3 to 4 narrow to broadly oblanceolate, acute leaves with stiff ribs and a long attenuate petiole that blooms on a stout, basal, to 10" [25 cm] long inflorescence with 5 to 7 large bracts and a large, inflated, acuminate floral bract that conceals the ovary all arising on a newly developing psuedobulb and carrying a single, showy, fleshy, pleasingly fragrant flower occuring in the late winter and early spring.
Synonyms Anguloa turneri B.S. Williams. 1885
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Colombian Orchid Vol 1 COS 1990; Native Colombian Orchid Vol 5 COS 1994; Nativae Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 1999; Botanica's Orchids Laurel Glen 2004; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Bennet & Christenson 1993; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Vasquez and Dodson 1982
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