~Galeandra batemani Rolfe 1892 - See also Galeandra baueri Lindley 1832 Photo courtesy of Glen Ladnier

Common Name or Meaning Bateman's Galeandra [English Botanist and Orchid Enthusiast 1800's]

Flower Size 1 1/4" [3 cm]

Found in Nayarit and Oaxaca states of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua in wet pine-oak forests at elevations of 1125 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with thickened pseudobulbs enveloped when developing by imbricating, trangular sheaths leafless below and above with disitchous, plicate, deciduous, basally clasping leaves and blooms in the spring and summer on a terminal, few to several flowered, racemose inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb and is a very rare plant often confused with Galeandra baueri which is a larger plant with wider sepals and petals.

References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 746 Dodson 1982; Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985;