IOSPE PHOTOS

Anguloa virginalis Linden 1851

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

Plant and Flowers in situ in Ecuador Photos courtesy of Eric Hunt

to LATE and Early

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 pseudobulb and carrying a single, showy, fleshy, pleasingly fragrant flower occuring in the late winter and early spring.

Synonyms Anguloa turneri B.S. Williams. 1885; Anguloa uniflora var. turneri (B.S. Williams) R.H. Torr.

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; Australian Orchid Review Vol 65 No 4 2000 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 69 No 12 2000 photo; Botanica's Orchids Laurel Glen 2004; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Bennet & Christenson 1993; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Vasquez and Dodson 1982; AOS Bulletin Vol 67 No 11 1998 photo; Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 1 2004 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 3 2006 drawing; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 5 2006 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 10 2008 photo; Lycaste, Ida and Anguloa, The Essential Guide Oakley 2008; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide

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