Coryanthes bruchmuelleri Rchb.f. 1876 Photo courtesy of Tropical Orchid Farm of Maui

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Common Name Bruchmeuller's Coryanthes [German Orchid Collector in South America 1800's]

Flower Size 4 4/5" [12 cm]

Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil and Peru as a large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte in lowland wet montane forests at elevations around 1000 meterswith elongate, ovoid, rugose, psuedobulbs carrying 2 apical, plicate, narrowly elliptical, acute leaves that blooms in the summer on a basal, pendant, to 24" [to 60 cm] long, few flowered, racemose inflorescence arising from a mature pseudobulb and is held well below the plant with large, extremely fragrant flowers.

Synonyms Coryanthes balfouriana Sander 1911; Coryanthes biflora Barb. Rodr. 1877; Coryanthes bungerothii Rolfe 1890; Coryanthes rodriguesii Hoehne 1942

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 as C rodriguesii drawing good; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 as C bungerothii drawing ok; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 as C biflora drwaing good; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 as Coryanthes biflora drawing fide; Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1970 as Coryanthes biflora; Die Orchideen #2 5-8 tafel 3 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 as C biflora photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 42 No 1 1978 as C biflora photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela ; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as C biflora drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 62 No 4 1993 photo; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 222 Bennett & Christenson 1995 drawing fide; Venezuela; Paraiso de Orquideas Romero 1997 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide

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