!Embreea rodigasiana (Claess. ex Cogn.) Dodson 1980 Another View Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by Hanging Gardens

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Common Name Rodigas' Embreea [Belgian Botanist 1800's]

Flower Size 6 1/2" [16 cm]

Found in Colombia and Ecuador as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte in extremely wet cloud forests at elevations of 500 to 1500 meters with ovoid, 4-angled, pale green pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, plicate, suberect, heavily veiuned beneath, oblanceolate to elliptic-oblong, acute, pale green leaf and blooms in the spring with a basal, pendant, 3 to 10" [8 to 25 cm] long, slender inflorescence bearing several sheaths, obovate bracts and a large, solitary, fleshy, short-lived flower. This species needs to be potted in a hanging basket to accomodate the pendant inflorescence which arises from the base of the pseudobulb and goes straight down through the media and out the underside of the basket. It is distinguished from Stanhopea from which it was segregated by Dodson in 1980 because of it's four horned lip and notably different pseudobulbs and leaves.

Synonyms *Stanhopea rodigasiana Claess. ex Cogn. 1898

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 064 Dodson 1980; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 2 COS 1991; AOS Bulletin Vol 62 No 12 1993 photo; Australian Orchid Review Vol 65 No 6 2000 photo; Australian Orchid Review Vol 67 No 1 2002 photo; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2002