Coelia guatemalensis Rchb. f. 1861 Photo courtesy of Noble Bashor

Common Name or Meaning The Guatemalan Coelia

Flower Size More than 2" [more than 5 cm]

Chiapas Mx, 2195m elev, Between San Cristobal las Casas & Comitan, Oak, Pine, Juniper forest,

Found in Chiapas state of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras at elevations of 1600 to 2600 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing epiphyte on oaks or lithophyte on rocks in moist pine oak forests with clustered, glossy, olive green, ovoid to ellipsoid pseudobulbs carrying to 5, plicate, ribbed, thick, acuminate, petiolate leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on a basal, 8" [20 cm] long, bracteate, racemose inflorescence with hooded bracts and up to 7 fragrant flowers, arising basally on the new pseudobulb growth.

Synonyms Bothriochilus guatemalensis (Rchb. f.) L.O. Williams 1940

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Hamer 1974 as Bothriochilus guatemalensis drawing/photo fide; Las Orquideas De El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 56 No 6 1987 photo; Icones Orchidacearum fascile 10 plate 1015 Hagsater & Soto 2008 drawing fide

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