Batemannia ciliata (Morel) Cogn. 1906 Photos courtesy of Eric Hunt

Ensitu in Brazil Photos courtesy of Sidney Marçal

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Common Name The Ciliate Batemannia

Flower Size

Found in the Guyanas, Peru and interior Brazil at lower elevations as a small to medium sized, hot to wartm growing epiphyte with an elongate rhizome partially enveloped by dry sheaths carrying large, tetragon, sulcate pseudobulbs enveloped basally by 2 sheaths and carrying 2 apical, coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, acute, plicate leaves that blooms in the late spring on an erect, 1 or 2 flowered, to 8" [20 cm] long, inflorescence that is shorter than the leaves.

Synonyms Batemania beaumontii (Lindl.) Rchb. f. 1852; Batemania ciliata (Morel) Cogn. 1906; Galeottia beaumontii Lindl. 1880; Galeottia ciliata (Morel) Dressler & Christenson 1989; Mendoncella ciliata (Lindl.) Garay 1973; Stenia beaumontii (Lindl.) A. Rich. ex Planch. 1858; Zygopetalum beaumontii Nichols 1887; *Zygopetalum ciliatum Morel 1848

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Hoehne 1953; Orchidaceae Brasilense Pabst & Dungs 1970