Batemannia armillata Rchb.f 1875 Photo by Guy Chiron and the Richardiana Webpage

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Common Name The Buckled Batemannia

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

A small sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte, that is from Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru found at altitudes of 300 to 700 meters with caespitose, laterally compressed, slightly 4 angled, ovoid, clustered, shiney green pseudobulbs enveloped basally by 2 to 3 pairs of imbricating, scarious sheaths and carrying 2 paired, elliptic-lanceolate, thick, acute, shortly petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late spring and summer on a pendulous, 8" [20 cm] long, loosely 3 to 6 flowered, racemose inflorescence with waxy, fragrant flowers.

Synonyms Zygopetalum chloranthum Krzl. 1910

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae Vol 3 Reichenbach 1881 drawing fide; Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1970; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965/1982; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 0010 Dodson & Bennett 1989 as mispelled Batemania armellata;

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