
Embreea herrenhusana ( Jenny ) Jenny 2002
Flower From Underneath Photo courtesy of Dick Hartley Foxdale Orchids
Common Name The Herrenhauser Embreea [Garden in Hanover Germany]
Flower Size 4 3/4 to 5 1/2" [12 to 14 cm]
Found in The Choco of Colombia as a small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with rectangular to ovoid pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, gray-green, plicate, petiolate, broadly lanceolate leaves and blooms on a pendant, basal, to 10" [25 cm] long, inflorescecne enveloped almost completely by chartaceous sheaths and carrying a single flower
Synonyms *Embreea rodigasiana ( Claes ex Cogn. ) Dodson var. herrenhusana Jenny 2001
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