!Batemannia colleyi Lindley 1834[1835] Photo by © Gene Monier

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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 pseudobulbs subtended by a few, short, scarious sheaths and carrying 2, deciduous, elliptic-lanceolate, several nerved, petiolate, acuminate leaves occurring 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 pseudobulb 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 ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Edwards's Bot. Reg. 20: sub pl. 1714. 1834; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953 as B yauyauperiensis; AOS Bulletin VOl 27 No 1 1957 drawing; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959; Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960; Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1960; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Dunsterville & Garay 1979; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Vasquez and Dodson 1982; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1982; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb and Laurent 1982; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 0011 Dodson & Bennett 1989; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 1 COS 1990; AOS Bulletin Vol 60 No 3 1991; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Dodson 1991; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Bennet & Christenson 1998;

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