Galeandra dives Rchb. f. 1854 Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl © .

InflorescencePhoto courtesy of Patricia Harding

Another Color Form Photo courtesy of Dr Leslie Garay

Common Name The Rich-Blooming Galeandra

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Colombia and Venezuela as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with tall, thin, erect, cylindrical pseudobulbs subtended by imbricating, persistent, leaf-bearing sheaths carrying deciduous, lanceolate, acute, thin leaves that are conduplicate below into the leaf sheath and has a terminal, short to 2" [5 cm], arcuate, racemose inflorescence arising from a newly matured pseudobulb that carries a few flowers in a cluster held among the leaves.

Galeandra flaveola is cited as a synonym of this species but I will keep them separate at this time.

References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970; The Orchids of Venezuela, An illustrated field guide Vol 1 Dunsterville and Garay 1979; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 2 COS 1991;