Cleistes rosea Lindl. 1840 Photo by © David Scherberich
Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
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Common Name The Rose Colored Cleistes
Flower Size 2.4" [6 cm]
Found in Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidad & Tobago, French Guiana, Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil on exposed grassy slopes or in disturbed areas at forest edges at elevations of 80 to 2200 meters as a medium to large sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with solitary unbranched leafy stems that continue to grow after flowering and can reflower in the next season 2 to 3 times and carrying grey-blue green, lanceolate, shortly pilose dorsally, acute, subfleshy, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on a a terminal, 1 to 3 flowered, successive, short inflorescence
Synonyms Cleistes rosea f. pallida Carnevali & I.Ramírez 1990; Epistephium monanthum Poepp. & Endl. 1836; Pogonia rosea (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1865
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1853; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1855;Xenia Orchidacea 2: 89. 1865 as Pogonia rosea; Biol. Cent.-Amer., Bot. 3(17): 304. 1883 as Pogonia rosea; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 17: 9. Panama Schlechter 1922; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 6 1958 as Pogonia rosea; Flora Brasilica Vol XII I Hoehne 1940; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 drawing fide; Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 drawing ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 38 NO 6 1969; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969 as Pogonia rosea drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 3 1979; Orchids of Venezuela ; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide AOS Bulletin Vol 49 No 4 1980 photo; Icones Planetarum Topicarum Orchids of Ecuador Plate 365 Dodson 1980 drawing fide; The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986 photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum plate 017 Bennett & Christenson 1993 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 62 No 7 1993 photo; Phylogeny and Classification of the Orchid Family Dressler 1993 photo hmm; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson & Escobar 1993 photo fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1994 photo fide; Venezuela; Paraiso de Orquideas Romero 1997 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 71 No 6 2002 photo; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo fide; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing fide; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; An Illustrated Field Guide to the Orchids of the Yotoco Forest Reserve Colombia Kolanowska, Escobar, Sanchez & Szlachetko 2011 drawing/photo fide
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