Bollea ecuadorana Dodson 1984 Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

Another Color Form Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

Common Name The Ecuador Bollea

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Ecuador at elevations of 900 to 1200 meters and as such is a medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with an erect, very short stem enveloped completely by distichous, imbricate, leaf bearing sheaths and carrying plicate, 5 to 7 nerved, ligulate-obovate, acute to acuminate, conduplicate below into the base leaves that blooms in the summer on a shorter than the leaves, 4.8" [12 cm] long, ascending, sheathed stalk with a solitary, fragrant flower.

Synonyms Pescatorea ecuadoriana [Dodson] Dressler 2005

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Selbyana 7(1): 354. 1984; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1994; Huntleya and Related Orchids Harding 2008 as Pescatorea ecuadorana; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide as Pescatoria ecuadorana

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