!Batemannia colleyi Lindley 1834[1835] Photo by © Gene Monier
Photo courtesy of Carlos Hajek
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Common Name Colley's Batemannia [English Orchid Collector 1800's]
Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]
Even though the 2nd photo says B armillata this is B colleyi, ID by Christenson
Found in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia in virgin forests as a large sized, caespitose epiphyte about 15 to 25' up on trunks in dense shade that has cylindric, 4-sided, glossy, olive green psuedobulbs subtended by a few, short, scarious sheaths and carrying 2, deciduous, elliptic-lanceolate, several nerved, petiolate, acuminate leaves occuring in wet montane forests at altitudes of 200 to 1200 meters in dense shade where it blooms in the spring on a arcuate to pendant, basal, terete, pale green-white, 8" [20 cm] long, few [2 to 7] flowered, racemose inflorescence arising with a new psuedobulb growth with large, hooded,pale green floral bracts and holds the fleshy, longlasting, fragrant [not pleasing] flowers below the leaves.
Synonyms Batemania peruviana Rolfe 1895; Batemania petronia (Barb. Rodr.) Barb. Rodr.1891; Batemania yauaperyensis Barb. Rodr. 1891; Batemannia peruviana Rolfe 1895; Batemannia petronia (Barb. Rodr.) Barb. Rodr.1891; Batemannia yauaperyensis Barb. Rodr. 1891; Lycaste colleyi Planch. 1858; Maxillaria colleyi Planch. 1858; Petronia regia Barb. Rodr. 1877
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1982; Flora Brasilica Hoehne 1953; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Dunsterville & Garay 1979; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Vasquez and Dodson 1982; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Bennet & Christenson 1998Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1960; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Dodson 1991; Native Colombian Orchids COS 1990; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb and Laurent 1982
