Coryanthes bergoldii Kenn. ex Dodson 1982 Photo courtesy of Dale and Deni Borders.

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Common Name Bergold's Coryanthes {Venezuelan Orchid Enthusiast current]

Flower Size 4" [10 cm]

This small sized, hot to cool growing epiphytic species comes from eastern Ecuador in ant nests in tropical wet forests and is found at an elevation of 1000 meters with narrowly pyriform, cylindric, deeply sulcate-ribbed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several scarious sheaths and carrying 2 apical, thin, plicate, narrowly oblong, acute leaves taht are narrowed into a slender basal petiole where it blooms on a basal, pendant, racemose, to 16" [40 cm] long, 1 to 3 flowered, bracteate inflorescence arising with a new growth with large, waxy, fragrant, short lived flowers.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Digest Vol 42 No 1 1978 as C bergoldii Hort xl photo ok; *Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 418 Dodson 1982 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson/Escobar 1993 drawing/photo; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005 drawing fide

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