Coryanthes leucocorys Rolfe 1891
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Common Name The White Helmut Coryanthes
Flower Size 4 1/2" [11.25 cm]
A medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphytic species from Colombia, southeastern Ecuador and northeastern Peru in lower montane forests at elevations around sealevel to 1600 meters with conical to oblong-ovoid, ribbed pseudobulbs carrying 2 apical, plicate, narrowly elliptical leaves with a distinct channeled petiole that blooms in the late summer on a basal, pendant, 1 to 2 flowered, to 12" [30 cm] long, racemose inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb with several short, tubular sheathsthat carries a large, waxy, short lived, fragrant flower, smelling strongly of mint and is found at elevations of sealevel to 1000 meters.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942; Orchid Digest Vol 42 No 1 1978 photo; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson/Escoabr 1999; Australian Orchid Review Vol 70 No 5 2005; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide
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