!Bollea violacea (Lindl.) Rchb. f. 1952 Photo by Jay Pfahl, plant grown by JEM Orchids

Another view Photo courtesy of Jean Claude George

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Common Name The Violet Bollea

Flower Size Up To 3" [to 7.5 cm]

Found in the Colombia, Brazil and the Guianas as a large sized, cool to hot growing epiphyte with 6 to 10, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate leaves arranged in a fan-shape that blooms in the summer on an axillary, shorter than the leaves, 4 to 10" [10 to 25 cm] long, ascending, sheathed stalk with a solitary, waxy, long-lived, fragrant flower.

Synonyms ?Bollea guiannensis Klotsch 1848; ?Huntleya sessiliflora Batem. 1837; Huntleya tyrianthina Hort. Rchb.f 1856; Huntleya violacea Lindl. 1839; Pescatorea violacea [Lindley] Dressler 2005; Zygopetalum violaceum Rchb. f. 1863;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Sertum Orchidaceum t. 26. 1839 as Huntleya violacea; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1987; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1993; Flora Brasilense Hoehne 1953; Orchidaceae Brasilensis Pabst & Dungs 1975; Huntleya and Related Orchids Harding 2008 as Pescatorea violacea